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Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.


Tony Buzan

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TONY FERNANDES My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that ...
TONY BLAIR Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them remove...
TONY PARSONS The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have beco...
TONY CAMPOLO I do like the nonpartisan atmosphere here at City Hall where you can talk with the person who oppose...
TONY CARDENAS That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. Yo...
TONY CAMPOLO In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Mini...
TONY BLAIR My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, an...
TONY MCCOY I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.
TONY OLLER If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is ever...
TONY DUNGY Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are ro...
TONY PARSONS It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral speci...
TONY JUDT I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
TONY ABBOTT Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm mor...
TONY BLAIR I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital ...
TONY CAMPOLO I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the f...
TONY KUSHNER