"You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened."
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"I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death."
"Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')"
"The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said."
"If you love the truth, you can remember it."
"Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are."
"Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember."
"Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible"
"Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much."
"Remember, it is only exposed problems that can be resolved."
"I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that."
"Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."
"The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that."
"A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much."
"When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body"
"Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal."
"If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -"
"When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself."
"It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal."
"Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need."