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Letter "R" » recalling
«The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continentsare interconnected. That is our home.»
Author: David Suzuki
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«Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.»
«Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.»
«Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday»
Author: Yiddish Proverb
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«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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«What was hard to endure is sweet to recall»
«'What do you fear my lady?' 'A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond beyond recall or desire.'»
«A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
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«A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled»
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