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“I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.”

Enough Process Memories Poor Findings Very Good Artificial Examination Enough Time Exam Follow Up Poor Memory

Author:Paul Nurse

“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?”

People Littles Two War Kids Three Bits Parent Memories Poor Wife Thousand Little Bit Died Soldier Zero Entitled Poor People Ground Zero

Author:Carl Paladino

“Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.”

Men World Sometimes Feelings Fall Memories Poor Boys Stones Senses Realms Burned Refusal Paralyzed Poor Boy

Book:The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.”

Would Be Today Beautiful Order Memories Poor Common Funeral Transformed Alas Corpses Counterparts Parlor Beautiful Memories

Book:The American Way of Death Revisited

Source: The American Way of Death Revisited

“I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.”

People Ends Born Memories Poor Great Depression Tag Orphanage

Author:Bryce Courtenay

“...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.”

Social Felt Memories Poor Compassion Vision Dresses Rose Workers Caught Remembered Branches Fence Curves Social Work Thorns Symbolism Social Worker Clutch Ragged Rose Bush Detaining

Author:Albion Fellows Bacon

“There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.”

Men Self Memories Poor Satisfied Poor Memory

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.”

Memories Poor Judgment Weak Intellect Complaining Poor Memory

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.”

Memories Poor Treated Remembered Contempt Recompense

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.”

Remember Memories Poor Ghost Thee Seats Globes Distracted

Author:William Shakespeare