The attic offers an idea of memory. It also asks: how can we explain the past?
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T.K. KISER My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.
CARA BLACK Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. ELIOT Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.
Use the memory to prevent us do bad things! TOBA BETA I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for an...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
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FRANCIS GRAILLE The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER The graduate with a Science degree asks: "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree...
UNKNOWN The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER ... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally gras...
RENEE CARLINO But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on ju...
SOHEIR KHASHOGGI I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Let go of the past, even if it offers you Heaven; embrace the future, even if it offers you Hell.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain ho...
ERNEST HELLO My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had...
SUSAN WIGGS The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value syste...
EVGENY MOROZOV The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many...
JARED DIAMOND Nobody in this world can explain you the meaning of life, but I can explain it only in four words an...
VIKRANT PARSAI Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realitie...
AMIT RAY There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went ba...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL We also have a specialty leasing program to help small businesses get started, ... We can help someo...
DONNA GREEN Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON Someday I was going to have to clean out my memory-attic, and it wasn’t going to be pretty.
RACHEL VINCENT Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from...
HENRY VAN DYKE We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
JEAN COCTEAU We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.
JEAN COCTEAU Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo...
GARY F EVANS... A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
LOUIS L'AMOUR No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
JOYCE MEYER It intensified. The attic, being an open area -- it traveled quickly.
ANNETTE PONCE It's been said that nothing can stop an idea whose time has come...but it's also equally important t...
DONALD LYNN FROST The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding...
STEPHEN LEVINE There are so few people left alive from back then, you may as well be talking to them about the Blac...
HARRY LESLIE SMITH Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Everybody always asks us how we choose the movies we have going right now, and it's hard to expl...
KATHLEEN KENNEDY The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born,but the rich will also look for one ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one...
AULIQ ICE Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgivin...
LEWIS B. SMEDES To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE The company offers chic clothing but we are also focused on the quality of the garments. H&M clothin...
JENNIFER UGLIALORO It's amazing how a traumatic memory can remain very much alive. It doesn't behave like a regular mem...
ALAIN BRUNET For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op...
RAQUEL CEPEDA Each person offers a lesson on how we can improve our lives.
LORRIN L. LEE The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyho...
CESAR RITZ Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyho...
RICHARD M. NIXON Don't Explain Why we Can't Do Something - Show me How We Can!
SOLLY TAMARI Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is...
MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
CHARLES DICKENS Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experie...
WALTER BENJAMIN The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host ...
A.J. DARKHOLME What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but ...
THOMAS LYNCH We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumul...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic
ANN LANDERS Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE VIEW FROM A HILL
I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Life's irony;The mediocre minds are ever ready to confront a great idea in a very great way.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Consistent with past practice, the governor will talk about an idea but it will be months before we ...
DICK DEVOS These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r...
CONNILYN COSSETTE I lied," I said. ...
"I know it," he said.
"Then do something about it. Do anything, just ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER It fits in with the values of his core constituency. It offers an opportunity for those people who h...
LARRY GERSTON After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't ha...
STEVE TOLTZ I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?"
"The...
NEIL GAIMAN If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?
HAROLD GRANGE Industrial biotechnology offers the tools for the Western world to adapt to a more competitive marke...
BRENT ERICKSON The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation...
HENRI BERGSON He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed thro...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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