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• Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear the uniform in the past and those who wear it today is to herald you, sir, and to thank you very much for your patriotism and your love for America.

  Frank Buckles

  Past, America, Honor

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• Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Heart, Blessing

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• Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Firsts, Natural

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• Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Eye, Winter, Past

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• It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

  Samuel Butler

  Hope, Fate, Men

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• The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Yield, World, Steps

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• Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Sex, Fishing, Three

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• You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Perfect, Desire

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Hero, College, Slavery

  George Edward Woodberry (1912). “Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American”

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• Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.

  Mary McCarthy

  Atheist, Eye, True Life

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Dad, Imagination, Details

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• I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That’s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.

  Jonathan Hull

  Past, Thinking, Wish

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Affection, Appreciated, Lost

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3998, Delphi Classics

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• One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

  Edgar Degas

  Invention, Tyranny, Liberated

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• Music revives the recollections it would appease.

  Madame de Stael

  Music, Revive, Appease

  "Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book IX, Chapter II, 1807.

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• My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, Memories, Growth

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• Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Immortality

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Mother, Thinking, Church

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• Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

  Bayard Taylor

  Past, Mind, Mountain

  Bayard Taylor (1869). “Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.53

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• The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.

  John Quincy Adams

  Memories, Struggle, Years

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

  Miguel

  Pain, Doe, Ends

  de Cervantes, Miguel (2015). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.119, Aegitas

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• That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.624, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.

  Norman Mailer

  Winter, Fog, Years

  Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.

  William Mountford

  Spiritual, Memories, Depth

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.460

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• Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!

  Washington Irving

  Death, Regret, Spring

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

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