These automatic influences of memory can mislead the elderly person and make them mistakenly think that they remember something that actually didn't happen. What's more, our studies show that older adults often are extremely confident about the accuracy of things they think they remember. They're more likely to make mistakes, and more difficult to convince they're wrong.


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Life is God's art.
LARRY NORMAN
I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei...
LARRY NORMAN
I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism....
LARRY NORMAN
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
LARRY NORMAN
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
LARRY NIVEN
I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
LARRY NIVEN
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is nev...
LARRY NIVEN
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
LARRY NIVEN
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
LARRY NIVEN
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
LARRY NIVEN
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
LARRY NIVEN
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN
I love superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
LARRY NIVEN
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
LARRY NIVEN
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can f...
LARRY NIVEN
I don't have a strong interest in history.
LARRY NIVEN
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
LARRY NIVEN
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
LARRY NIVEN
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
LARRY NIVEN
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
LARRY NIVEN
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
LARRY NIVEN
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill o...
LARRY NIVEN
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he&...
LARRY NIVEN
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
LARRY NIVEN
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of ca...
LARRY NIVEN
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
LARRY NIVEN
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
LARRY NIVEN
I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, th...
LARRY MILLER
Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for ...
LARRY MILLER
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting...
LARRY MILLER
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. I...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
LARRY MCMURTRY
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
LARRY MCMURTRY
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: w...
LARRY MCMURTRY
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone ...
LARRY MCMURTRY
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends&#...
LARRY MCMURTRY
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity fro...
LARRY MCMURTRY