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"Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up, it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung. Everything you remember is another set of hooks on which more new memories can be attached. So the capacity of memory keeps on growing. The more you know, the more you can know."
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Source: Peter Russell (2013). “The Brain Book: Know Your Own Mind and How to Use it”, p.106, Routledge
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