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• Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

  Frank McCourt

  Happiness, Happy, Glowing

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• It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.

  David J. Schwartz

  Happiness, Memories, Self

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• Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

  Richard Powers

  Fall, Past, Simple

  Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Morning, Lying

  Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.256, We Publish Books

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• If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day.

  Les Brown

  Thinking About You, Goal, Focus

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• I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Tests, Hearing

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.107, Multnomah

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• It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

  Menander

  Hands, Stones, Easy

  "Ex Incert. Comæd", (p. 216) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 902-907), 1922.

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• It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite. I mean, I can't recall every stupid thing that adults were doing when I was six or seven. Some of it was the religious restrictions, where there were certain things that you were allowed to do and certain things that you weren't allowed to do, and I couldn't make sense of those things.

  Al Jaffee

  Religious, Stupid, Mean

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• I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism - being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer's character.

  Dave Barry

  Character, Challenges, Stories

  "Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Winner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, Animal, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.

  Ira Carmen

  Lying, Men, Sweat

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• It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't.

  Frank A. Clark

  Wish, Wish You, Said

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• We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Color, Faces

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• The established characters are easy to recall. I don't know why, but they come back to me instantly when I need them. It's the one-time-only characters that I don't remember where the voice I used came from.

  Jim Cummings

  Character, Voice, Needs

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• I don't recall a show I've ever been on that had the same director do two episodes in a row, but in England, they do it all the time. In England, they'll just have one director for eight episodes. That was the British system that Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner wanted to bring to the States. I think there was a nice merger of the two systems. They might have gone with one director, but John had obligations on The Village, and he had to leave and come back, so it seemed like a natural place to break it up.

  Glen Morgan

  Nice, Thinking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Book, Overwhelmed

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• As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Basketball, Baby, Past

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Dark, Age, Flight

  Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel, Bertrand De Jouvenel (2010). “The Ethics of Redistribution”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

  Barbara Cooper

  Regret, Night, Making Love

  "Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage". Book by Barbara Cooper, www.today.com. 2012.

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• I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out of three I know something about the reviewer, and in very few cases have I any respect for his judgments. Thus his praise, if he praises me, leaves me unmoved. I can't recall any review that has even influenced me in the slightest. I live in sort of a vacuum, and I suspect that most other writers do, too. It is hard to imagine one of the great ones paying any serious attention to contemporary opinion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Writing, Two

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• In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

  Jeffrey Jones

  Sake, Satan, Goddess

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• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

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• When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.

  William Wegman

  Photography, Art, Commitment

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• I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

  Larry Trask

  Firsts, Mets, First Time

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• South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Forgiving, Never Forget

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