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“Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.”

Memories Alive Rights Kings Majors Civil Rights Remembered Luther Stewardship Prince Of Peace

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.”

People Writing Ideas Moments Culture Memories Taste Right Now Embrace Appeals Evolve Remembered Aesthetic Culture Change Changes Over Time

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I don't care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.”

Ifs Care Life Is Memories Behinds Don't Care I Don't Care Remembered

Author:Jared Leto

“I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived”

Ifs Wanted Memories Goes On Remembered

Author:Karen Maitland

“We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.”

Mind May Action Fall Memories Known Principles Mankind Taught Errors Sentences Remembered Folly Contracts Impressed Recollection Benefactors Rules Of Life

Book:The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

“...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

“Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.”

Knows Might Remember Causes Memories Conscious Deeper Tendencies Remembered Succession No Memory

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“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)

“Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.”

Seems Memories Perfect Remembered Recollection

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.”

Stills Memories Dark Infinite Dresses Studios Occasions Remembered Remembrance Fifth Avenues Festive

Author:Vladimir Nabokov