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I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

— Paula Poundstone

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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.

They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.

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Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

Colin Wilson The Philosopher's Stone (1969)

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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