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" If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. "

Jane Austen
" A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. "

James M. Barrie
" Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath. "

Dave Barry
" Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. "

Robert Benchley
" In the past, scientists were trained to do things top-down. Even software engineering is about taking an idea and breaking it into smaller pieces to work on-but the software project is itself part of something larger. "

Tim Bernerslee
" History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte
" I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. "

Herb Caen
" There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. "

George Carlin
" We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. "

Jimmy Carter
" There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.' "

Chuck D
" If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance. "

Puff Daddy
" I met Pete first when he came to one of our rehearsals with a guitar. I saw him at school, he was a character. You could hardly miss him. But he loves to make those kinds of stories up and we have had a lot of fights in the past and I did used to rule the band with an iron fist. "

Roger Daltrey
" I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes. "

Jill Dando
" We have emptied every coffee can in the backyard and maxed out all the credit cards. When your past due bills exceed your cash on hand, when your month-in, month-out expenses far exceed the size of your paycheck, when your once-hefty savings have all been run through, the average family knows what to call it. "

Mitch Daniels
" I am fascinated with times past. "

Frank Darabont
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