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• Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, People, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.441

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• I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.

  Ralph Ellison

  Laughter, Gay, Air

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.134, Vintage

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• It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

  Plutarch

  Impossible, Silent, Easy

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• We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Sleep, Water

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Determination, Generosity, Enemy

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  Pat Morita

  Writing, Details, Remember

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.75

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• More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.

  John Howe

  Mind, Looks, States

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Air, Joy

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• Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

  Julian Barnes

  Important, Lines, Speak

  "The road not taken" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2005.

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• I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.

  Frank Bolles

  Nature, Voice, Feelings

  Frank Bolles (1896). “At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December”

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• When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, War, Looks

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• [May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Art, Science

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• As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  School, Boys, Giving

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• I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.

  Tobias Wolff

  Mistake, Teaching, Leader

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• I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

  Alastair Campbell

  Country, Book, Writing

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.

  Henry Petroski

  Vocabulary, Design Process, Study

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.

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• Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.

  Diana DeGette

  Responsibility, Decision, Delay

  "What’s Needed to Protect Our Nation’s Food Supply" by Rep. Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2009.

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• I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.

  Tyler Florence

  Children, Kids, Grandmother

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• Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

  Ray Davies

  Memories, Evil, Alcohol

  Song: Alcohol

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• How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

  Samuel Woodworth

  Nature, Heart, Views

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• The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Past, Men

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

  Ellen Ochoa

  College, Interest, Particular

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• Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

  Martin O'Malley

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  "Walker, O'Malley, Trumka". "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. June 10, 2012.

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• At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.

  George Papandreou

  Mother, Father, People

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