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recollection
«The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.»
Author: P. L. Berger
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Past
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explains, flexible, interprets, malleable, recollection, recollections
«SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree. He'd traveled in a foreign land. He tried to make her understand The dance that's called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee. He had called it so through an afternoon, And she, the light of his harem if so might be, Had smiled and said naught. O the body was fair to see, All frosted there in the shine o' the moon -- Dead for a Scarabee And a recollection that came too late. O Fate! They buried him where he lay, He sleeps awaiting the Day, In state, And two Possible Puns, moon-eyed and wan, Gloom over the grave and then move on. Dead for a Scarabee! --Fernando Tapple»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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afternoon, awaiting, dead tree, eyed, Fernando, frosted, gloom, harem, land of the dead, move on, naught, oak, oak tree, Puns, recollection, saraband, scarabaeus, sleeps, sleep late, smiled, traveled, WAN
«We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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future, made, past, recollection, recollections, responsibility, wise
«The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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abundance, harvest, previously, recollection, recollections, secured, The Harvest
«The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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body, done with, luxury, mode, pleasure, purification, recollection, recollections, regret, remains, sin, sins, The Body
«We must believe that 'emotion recollected in tranquillity' is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not 'recollected' and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is ''tranquil'' only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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atmosphere, attending, concentration, consciously, distortion, formula, happen upon, inexact, passive, recollected, recollection, recollects, resulting, tranquil, tranquillity, unite
«The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Heroism
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Hero of, idol, in turn, recollection, successor, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants