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“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.”

Ifs Moments Past Fear Memories Doubt Failing Regret Future Capable Vulnerable Delusion Present Moment

Author:Jan Phillips

“Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.”

Shows Memories Failing Office Buried Tombs

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.”

May Memories Animal Failing Filled Looking Back Back When Pastures

Book:The Spectator: A New Edition

Source: The Spectator: A New Edition

“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.”

World Mind Mean Made Reason Form Values Memories Acting Brain Principles Failing Diversity Computer Program Historical Driven Scales Internals Categories Criteria Constraints Analogies

Author:Gerald Edelman

“We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.”

Kind Memories Failing Christmas

Author:Frank McCourt

“To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.”

Source: Freedom the Wolfe Tone way

“All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.”

Important Self Memories Emotion Brain Failing Shapes Ultimate Intimate Delicate Circuits Souvenirs

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.”

Memories Ability Failing Recalls Erase

Author:James Cook

“And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity - it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.”