Quote by Joshua Foer
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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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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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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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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Ive been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience. – Maria Sharapova

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There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But theyre all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they dont handle like a Porsche. – Kevin OLeary

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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. – Herbert Read

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. – John Stuart Mill

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The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody elses. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that theres no truth. – Flannery OConnor

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Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. – Abraham Lincoln

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