Quote by Joshua Foer
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections betwee

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. – Joshua Foer

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Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But thats not the same thing as wisdom. – Joshua Foer

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Future
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Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. – Joshua Foer

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Experience
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No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today. – Joshua Foer

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communication
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Humor
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The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. – David Sedaris

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Humor

Its good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you. – Margaret Cho

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Humor

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven. – Mark Twain

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Humor

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectators place and laugh at his own misfortune. – Bert Williams

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Humor

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. – Author Unknown

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Love

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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respect

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world youve got to keep your feet warm. – Denis Diderot

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Death