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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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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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when were idling in front of our computer screens. – Joshua Foer

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Age
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Weve outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that theyre failing us. – Joshua Foer

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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic. – Barbet Schroeder

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Humor

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it. – Laura Ingraham

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Humor

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isnt. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. – Horace Walpole

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Humor

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. – Agnes Repplier

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Humor

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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Twice as much to love, two blessings from above. – Author Unknown

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Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again. – Warren Cuccurullo

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My life has run from misery to happiness. – Loretta Lynn

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