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“The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you muster at him. Not absolutely everything can or should have to be explained, and particularly not to everybody. But a concussion is a value-judgment anyone gets the point of.”

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Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith, born on March 8, 1965, is a renowned basketball player. He is known for his exceptional skills and leadership on the NBA court, having played for the Houston Rockets and the Atlanta Hawks. Smith's contributions to basketball extend beyond the court, as he has also made a name for himself as a television analyst, known for his unique perspective and humorous style. more

“Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.”

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Author:Gaston Bachelard

“There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.”

Names Nature Memories Study Affection

Author:Charles Nodier

“He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.”

Seems Wanted Memories Justice Cracks Pretending Instruction Telephones Coffins

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Meek Walton's heavenly memory.”

Memories Heavenly Meek

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“I'll note you in my book of memory.”

Book Memories Notes

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.”