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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.
Paul Auster
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Author
Bedtime
Book
Fairy
Father
Mother
Tales
Ardently
Beside
Childhoods
Fairy Tales
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Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.
Martin Jacques
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Journalist
Closeness
Collaboration
Arguably
Marx
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Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.
Katherine Waterston
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Film Actress
Jealous
Time Dad Remember
Recall
Shoots
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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
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Politician
Defined
Old Days
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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
Lech Walesa
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Former President Of Poland
Hatred
Life Lesson
Lying
Path
Violence
Drawn
Effectively
Experiences
Lesson
Lies
Oppose
Recall
Resort
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The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.
Mike Weir
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Golfer
Buddy
Hockey
Skip
Upset
Time Dad Me
Coach
Missed
Recall
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From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.
Homaro Cantu
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Inventor
Christmas
Age
Dad
Engines
Wind
Young Age
Work Age Dad
Apart
Gifts
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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
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U.s. Representative
Attorney
Last Year
Vote
Good Responsibility People
Amendment
Bill
Legislator
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As you will recall, soon after the 9/11 attacks, an international coalition led by the United States conducted an impressive campaign to defeat the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other associated extremist groups in Afghanistan.
David Petraeus
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Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
Afghanistan
Defeat
Extremist
Groups
Taliban
Al
Associated
Attacks
Campaign
Coalition
Qaeda
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In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.
George Grosz
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Artist
Observation
Pardoned
War Time Home
In The End
Packed
Recall
Subject
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So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.
Scott Walker
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Governor Of Wisconsin
Government
Big Government
Boss
Election
Simple
Bosses
Washington
Facing
Fundamentally
Union
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I retain characters more often than plot, but what seems to happen is that I latch on to specific moments, turns of phrase, and dialogue as touchstones for me to recall what happened in the book. Kind of like freeze-frame.
Sarah Weinman
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Plot
Turns
Phrase
Recall
Retain
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
Peter Ackroyd
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Biographer
Clue
Events
Remember
Sequence
Trying
Actual
Exactly
Exactly What
Recall
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I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me - or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!
Warren Spector
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Video Game Designer
Adventure
Designer
Multiple
Something New
Me New Everything
Dealing
Recall
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One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.
Gretchen Rubin
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Author
Happy
Best
Good
Happy Times
Memories
Occasions
Past
Weight
Best Good Great
Good Great Memories
Yourself
Because
Best Great Memories
Make
Take
Times
Present
Photos
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Tend
Ways
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Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
Henry Petroski
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Civil Engineer
Design
Failure
Design Process
Process
Study
Vocabulary
Case
Wrong
Engineer
He Or She
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Recite
She
Studies
Suggestive
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'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad.
David Duchovny
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Actor
Mature
Cancelled
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I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.
Marilynne Robinson
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Novelist
Book
Children
Overwhelmed
Small Child
More Or Less
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Suggested
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The night before a game, I'd think about who I was playing, and then how I'd bowled against those guys, if I had got them out previously. While I was playing, I could recall nearly all my wickets and how I got the batsman out.
Glenn Mcgrath
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Cricket Player
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As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.
Paul Hoffman
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Administration
Advice
Concerned
Dean
Counsel
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Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
John Irving
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Novelist
Files
Forget
Memories
Monsters
Thinking
Will
Things
Away
Own
Them
Simply
Hides
Memory
Monster
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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.
George Papandreou
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Former Prime Minister Of Greece
Confidence
Faith
Advice
Belief
Distress
Father
Mother
Nurture
People
Fathers
Gave
Greek People
Mothers
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The first time I met Garry Shandling was my audition for 'The Larry Sanders Show,' with Garry and his casting director Francine Maisler. I can recall every minute of it. He was gracious and kind, and he read with me. He was terrific.
Jeffrey Tambor
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Actor
Casting
Gracious
Larry
Terrific
Time Me First Time
Time Me I Can
Audition
Garry
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I cannot really recall when I faced stage fear because I started so young. It's my natural habit. But you know, I can see how I have changed, rather improved as a singer. I never had a formal training but regular practice of singing.
Neha Kakkar
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Formal
Habit
Improved
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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Tom Stoppard
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Playwright
Birthday
Smile
Age
Comic
Enjoyed
Jokes
Long
Seven
Six
Joke
Liked
Precisely
Puns
Recall
Worked
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In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.
Safra A. Catz
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Business Executive
Colleagues
Microsoft
Software
Companies
Oracle
Recall
Telling
Turned
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
Patricia Maclachlan
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Writer
Extended Family
Heroic
Maine
Most Amazing
Remembered
Risk-taking
Family Great Amazing
Extended
Recall
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I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf Rat.' I mean, that's twice in a lifetime of writing!
Jerry Garcia
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Musician
Inspiration
Lifetime
Song
Twice
Bing
Happening
Rat
Recall
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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
Paul Sarbanes
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Former Member Of The United States Senate
American History
Attention
Body
Committees
Exception
Important
Paid
Work History Done
Although
Floor
Legislative
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I can recall that nobody ever went out the door that wasn't dressed nicely, even though it was the Depression. I particularly remember on Sunday, the day we all went to church, if you didn't have it together, you kind of stayed in the house.
Faith Ringgold
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Artist
Sunday
Dressed
Nicely
Recall
Stayed
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The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.
Pankaj Patel
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Academic
Excellence
Granted
Scholarship
Achieving
Award
Standard
Points
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Studying
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More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.
John Howe
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Illustrator
Looks
Mind
States
Archetypes
Describe
Elves
However
Minds
Pressed
Recall
Summoned
Tolkien
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I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
Pierre Loti
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Novelist
Sad
Careless
Children
Habitual
Happenings
Happy Day
Impression
Joyous
Mind
Rare
Happy Days
Just Because
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I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.
Laura Robson
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Sports
Conversation
Crucial
Eight
Race
Competitive
Stern
Recall
Relay
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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Farmer
Father
Missionary
Thinking
Thirteen
Years
Life Faith Work
Mission
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Vividly
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Running a marathon is unlike anything I have done. You can recall all those bad weights sessions or the work you had to do in pre-season, but marathon running is worse than any of it, probably the hardest thing I have had to do in my entire life.
Edwin Van Der Sar
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Footballer
Running
Hardest Thing
Marathon
Life Work Done
Entire
Entire Life
Unlike
Life Work Bad
Weights
Recall
The Hardest Thing
Worse
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My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.
Catherine Hicks
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Film Actress
Home
Catholicism
Christian
Living Room
Mass
Movement
Parent
Priests
Woven
Family Home Parents
Recall
Rotate
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We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.
Clive Thompson
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Blogger
Documents
Manipulate
Paper
Pencils
Consult
Recall
Scratch
Store
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Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.
Joshua Foer
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Journalist
Dialogue
Excuse
Memories
Notes
Tape
Truman
Use
Absolute
Useful
Nearly
Capote
Claimed
Cloth
Cover
Invent
Memory
Recall
Recorder
Suspect
Tape Recorder
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Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.
Joshua Foer
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Journalist
Buttons
Close Friends
Growing Up
Heart
Numbers
Phones
Phone
Friends And Family
Phone Call
Punch
Recall
Telephone
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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
Jeff Goodell
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Author
American Government
Carbon
Class
Drilling
Oil
Taught
Calculation
Elect
Presidents
Putting
Recall
Votes
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A power of recall that depended solely on the electorate and was not subject to unnecessary hurdles of Parliamentary procedures would show trust in the good sense and fairness of the British people. In return, they might trust Parliamentarians a little more.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
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Electorate
Fairness
Good Sense
Parliamentary
Procedures
Unnecessary
British People
Depended
Hurdles
Recall
Solely
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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Bad Habits
Department
Enjoyed
Grateful
Limits
Singing
Life Time Strength
Each Year
Habits
Recall
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Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.'
Faith Salie
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Computers
Brains
Drives
Fuller
Recall
Scientifically
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I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.
Scott Baio
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Actor
Experience
Disrespectful
Hard
Honestly
People
Rude
Thinking
People Know Hard
Across
Experience People Know
Sure
Came
Off
Head
Rarely
Recall
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Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
Thomas Frank
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Journalist
Government
Administration
Contracting
Differences
Employed
Factors
Federal Government
Federal Spending
Numbers
Spending
Time Government People
Bush
Directly
Explained
George
George W
George W. Bush
Recall
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I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'
Jerry Lewis
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Comedian
Belly
Handle
Tenacity
Personally
Recall
Sunsets
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I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.
Pierre Loti
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Novelist
Consciousness
Delicious
June
Midst
One Day
Past
Secret
Self
Terror
Alone Myself Me
Entangled
Explain
Recall
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I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
Jacob Epstein
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Sculptor
Distasteful
Grammar
Indulgence
Neglect
Retarded
Subjects
Teachers
Draw
Faculties
Passed
Recall
Studies
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I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.
Akira Suzuki
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Clarity
Motto
My Motto
Textbooks
Professor
Recall
Remained
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