A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
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Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this House at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my Memory.
john diefenbakerTo have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than Memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!
frances burneyThe leaves of Memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHeld in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of Memory And all its clear relations Its divisions and precisions.
All water has a perfect Memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
toni morrisonFor many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old, but I do not tell about that any more, now; I am grown old, and my Memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.
mark twainAnd I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused Memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.
oliver sacksIn plucking the fruit of Memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.
ConstantinusOf those four winters which I passed in Indo-China opium has left the happiest Memory.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my Memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. 416
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good Memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.
hugh everettTo be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the Memory's vault and mix in a sad Memory from one's own life.
albert finneyOriginally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash Memory [to store data such as games and photos] and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.
shigeru miyamotoYou could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of Memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to- face society depends on the nature of the technology of Memory--both how it works and what it remembers... In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.
eben moglenEach minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May Memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.
delmore schwartzThanks to my Memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.
stanislaw ulamShe was a form of life and light That seen, became a part of sight, And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of Memory! Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Alla given, To lift from earth our low desire.
lord byronLately Marge's Memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her Memory had grown incontinent with age.
john crowley"The Amyrlin understands the most complex of creeds and debates," Egwene said, quoting from Memory. "Yet in the end, she is the servant of all, even the lowest of laborers."
robert jordanPoetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of Memory.
james joyceThe Memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
linus torvaldsWe shall go according to the constant usage within Memory.
Yet what makes the show what it is - a truly mesmerising theatrical event that should live forever in the Memory - is the magic and the variety, speed and dexterity with which Brown performs it.
I have the most ill-regulated Memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done.