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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Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. – Joshua Foer

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Science
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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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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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Humor
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I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor. – Rod Stewart

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Humor

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. – Dweezil Zappa

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Humor

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. – Eminem

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Humor

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years. – Allen Klein

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Humor

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock

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Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. – Don Wilder and Bill Rechin

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. – Thomas Hobbes

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke

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