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• What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Self

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• Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect

  Linda Howard

  Team, Perfect, Office

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• And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Book, Past

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• Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Self, Doubt

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• Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

  John Green

  Lasts, Last Words, Harder

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.138, Penguin

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• Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

  David Sedaris

  Love You, People, Important

  David Sedaris (2009). “Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.

  John Green

  Book, Interesting, President

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.89, Penguin

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• Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Oxygen, People, Hatred

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Please remember: things are not what they seem.

  Haruki Murakami

  Please, Things Are Not What They Seem, Seems

  "1Q84: Books 1 & 2". Book by Haruki Murakami, May 29, 2009.

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• My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

  Abigail Adams

  Son, Action, Makers

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95

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• Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Thinking, Conform

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 04, 2016

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• You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Past, People

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.64, Vintage

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• Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Maps, Treasure

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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  As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, Order, Smoking

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.29, Penguin

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• Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Fall, Home

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sweet, Remembers You, Years

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Today, Feds, Wells

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.278, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Book, Looks, Firsts

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could hear, she said, "I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.

  Julie Garwood

  Wine, Men, Thinking

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Secret”, p.84, Penguin

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• The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Jesus, Morning, Bored

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.27, Algonquin Books

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• The little boy leaned against his father's chest and slowly nodded. "Yes," he said. "I heard all of the names, but I don't remember the other two… just the man who hurt Gillian." "That's the name I most want," Brodick said softly. "Who is he, Alec?" "Alec, please," Gillian began. "Tell me, Alec. Who is he?" "Baron," Alec whispered. "His name is Baron.

  Julie Garwood

  Hurt, Father, Boys

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory! Use your memory! It is those bitter seeds alone which might sprout and grow someday. Look around you - there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart out because you didn't make use of the opportunity to ask him questions. And the less you talk, the more you'll hear.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Memories, Heart

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• Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

  Richard Siken

  Sorry, Should Have, Together

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

  Anna Funder

  Our Love, Who We Are, Ends

  Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires them to endure present privation and trial, it is that they may escape greater tribulations which would otherwise inevitably overtake them. If He deprives them of any present blessing, it is that he may bestow upon them greater and more glorious ones by-and by.

  George Q. Cannon

  Children, Blessing, Men

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