We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

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We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL

Imagination and recollection of cherished memories of the pastimes are closely related. We do not re...
KILROY J. OLDSTER

...your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of stone.
R.J. PALACIO Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK Our brains are our greatest treasures that we have in our life. But it takes a lifetime to realize t...
AVIJEET DAS Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and no...
MITCHELL BURGESS

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins...
SETH SHOSTAK

So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body
KEN M Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to humans? Is natu...
IVAN URLAUB Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than thei...
NELSON MANDELA It’s not magic. I remember because I make comparisons. Not in terms of better or worse, just diffe...
SHANE L. KOYCZAN I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE

Just because our brains are limited in size, does not mean our minds need be.
JEFFREY FRY

...we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of a...
R.J. PALACIO

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEIL

I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we ...
PHILIPPE FOREST

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It's a whole different ballgame now. We are not in disarray. Our athletes are stepping up and they'r...
GREG SAND I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at ...
JOHN BRIGHT We are built with a passion in our heart for the things we are meant to do.
LIGHTS POXLIETNER We have the power as individuals to create a different perspective. We can physically rewire our bra...
TINA HALLIS We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS It could be a variety of things that may require them to fine-tune their system. In our enforcement,...
STEVE GUNDERSON Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precis...
ATUL GAWANDE we are not meant to be perfect but rather learn from our imperfect world
BAILEY CHANDRA We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Not all dogs are perfect dogs, but all dogs are inherently good. Like people, we are affected by env...
KATE MCGAHAN I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by t...
PAUL BLOOM We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us...
RICHARD DAWKINS Our mantra of service is built on a relationship. We wanted to introduce ourselves first, and join t...
JACKSON STEWART Life is not intended to be understood but rather lived in faith that we are in the riotous path fulf...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?

a. Finding ways to tell humans that they...
JERRY A. COYNE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, ...
GASTON BACHELARD It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in t...
FRANCIS CRICK The thoughts that we conceive in our soul are the images built later in our heart to think in our mi...
ANUJ SOMANY Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, bea...
FAITH HUNTER Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
JOHN GREEN We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to...
BRIAN GREENE We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away...
BETH REVIS Our hopes are but memories reversed.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling t...
MOTHER ANGELICA I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
RUSSELL BRAND We are not coming in saying we are going to walk all over them. We are going to come in confident th...
DAVID BOLLAND Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The ...
ERIC HOFFER To put it bluntly, there are too many humans on this planet. Six-billion-plus primates. And we think...
CHARLES STROSS Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE We get refined only if we are wiling to accept our mistakes and do all the right things we can to fi...
RAYMOND OBENG Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting our...
C. JOYBELL C. A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of...
SUSAN MAUSHART Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realiz...
DESMOND TUTU The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to hon...
R.J. PALACIO People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their...
MEISTER ECKHART Experiences and memories make us who we are, not just our genes.
MERLYN GABRIEL MILLER Glaciers are delicate and individual things, like humans. Instability is built into them.
WILL HARRISON We're not doing anything different, but it's being done in a different atmosphere, an environment in...
JEFF COGEN Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not...
CYRIL CONNOLLY No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Su...
ANNE RICE O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are working with our federal agency partners to fix this problem.
ANNA RICHTER TAYLOR We don’t vanish without a trace. We are not like animals, content with burrows in the ground. We a...
JENNIFER ARNETT Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts ne...
HARUKI MURAKAMI DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in 2005. But our earnings are still not where we want them...
DIETER ZETSCHE The value of things does not always lie in their prices; but in the memories they bring. Sometimes, ...
FADI WILLIAM GHALI ABDELMESSIH We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, no...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Our system scans the database each night to identify customers who signal their need for attention. ...
C.F. LIN We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its conten...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA Winter break was the perfect opportunity to get to know the team in a different light. We not only b...
EMILEIGH MERCER Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS We project based on where we our in our life and our beliefs at that moment; however, when we shift ...
WILIAM CONSTANTINE In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate...
CARTER G. WOODSON I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. ...
DONELLA MEADOWS This year we are taking our campaign out to the people in our city's nightspots to make them think a...
DENNIS BROWN No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditi...
GLEN COOK What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
NICHOLAS SPARKS What are we, after all, without our memories … without our dreams?
NICHOLAS SPARKS Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose ...
DR. JAMES DOBSON Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose ...
JAMES DOBSON Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose ...
DR. JAMES C. DOBSON We are not looking at dealing with the height to stop them from developing their play but rather the...
FRANK RIJKAARD

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We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

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