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No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever en

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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Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition. – Joshua Foer

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Imagination
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Joshua Foer
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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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Trust
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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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Humor
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Other Quotes from
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Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what youve got to say, and say it hot. – David Herbert Lawrence

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communication

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. – Henry Miller

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communication

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication Ive ever seen. – Frank Luntz

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communication

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across. – Charles Kennedy

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communication

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Logic is one thing and commonsense another. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

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Logic

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

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Pleasure

Because I didnt have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them – but it was not my family. Ive always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters. – Gus Van Sant

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Family

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society. – H. Rap Brown

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Society