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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past. F. Sionil Jose

Past, Remember, Worship, Ancestors, Our

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life. Malcolm Muggeridge

Life, Pain, Think, My Own, Horror, Own

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. Gary Ryan Blair

Dreams, Goals, Blessed, Memory, Mind

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. Elie Wiesel

Home, Book, Table, Without, Jewish

Years ago I was at a function, and I must have said something really rude to Paul Daniels the magician. I can't recall what I said, but I remember him looking utterly crestfallen. I'm not that sort of person, but I must have said something very cutting and belittling. Our paths haven't crossed since, but if they had, I would have said sorry to him. Diana Rigg

Sorry, Looking, Remember, Person, Rude

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.' Samantha Shannon

Day, Me, Dedication, You, Writing, Need

There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis. Hans Haacke

Work, Art, Sick, Language, Trash, Others

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. Tim Burton

Father, Saying, Movies, Never, Three

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. Ernst Mach

Memories, Today, Youth, Boy, Person

The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the powers of election, recall, initiative, and referendum. Sun Yat-sen

Knowledge, Election, People, Government

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college. Ellen Ochoa

Science, College, Interest, Came, Any

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love. Alphonsus Liguori

Life, Love, Confidence, God, Loving, You

I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year. Jason Mraz

Life, Strength, Time, Grateful, Guitar

When I drink a little, I sometimes recall my old days. Then I ask myself, 'What does Roh Moo-hyun mean in my life?' He really defined my life. My life would have changed a lot if I didn't meet him. So he is my destiny. Moon Jae-in

Life, Myself, My Life, Destiny, Meet

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world. Lois Lowry

Future, World, Kid, Everything, Years

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection. Gene Tierney

Mirror, Reflection, Loving, Long, Hours

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids. Tyler Florence

Yourself, Child, Think, You, Remember

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things. Dave Winfield

Time, Me, People, Looking, Looking Back

I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things. Howard Jacobson

Best, Satisfaction, Table, Half, Things

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. Arthur Smith

Strong, Details, Crime, Punishment, Read

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. Edward Dahlberg

Good, Evil, Result, Difficult, Only, Act

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. Thomas Frank

Good, War, Today, Great, Thought, You

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. Tom Hayden

Acceptance, Distance, Try, Hard, Avoid

And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments. Henry Cuellar

Good, Responsibility, People, Vote, You

'The Brownies and the Goblins' is the only book I recall from my early childhood and is the inspiration for a children's book I wrote in the 1980s titled 'The Magic Spectacles.' James Blaylock

Children, Childhood, Book, Magic, Early

I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever. DMX

New, Rapper, Excited, Being, About, Ever

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