Quote by Joshua Foer
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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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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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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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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. – Joshua Foer

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Other Quotes from
Humor
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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? – Bob Hope

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Humor

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes. – Ted Rall

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Humor

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Humor

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges. – Thomas W. Higginson

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Humor

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Its a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war. – George McGovern

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He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress. – English Proverb

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

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Lets hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply wont buy. – Simon Mainwaring

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Hope