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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a

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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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether well rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually. – Joshua Foer

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Future
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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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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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I think its been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. – P. J. ORourke

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Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and long-form development that filmmakers didnt have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like The Sopranos. – Martin Scorsese

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A womans experience is different from a mans in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media. – Carly Fiorina

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When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them. – Allen Klein

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Experience

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Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They wont date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs. – Patti Stanger

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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. – Bruce Springsteen

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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. – William Shakespeare

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Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. – Abraham Lincoln

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