Alice Steinbach Quotes
What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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Let's not forget, I got divorced.
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My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
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I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
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If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
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I don't like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn't have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world.
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A great road trip. To come back in Cleveland to win that series and get these two ... no excuses, but it's been a long road trip for just five games. It's huge going 4-1. Cleveland has a great team and Tampa Bay is playing better. But we pitched well and scored some runs. We're starting to jell together.
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Catholicism is a religion of idols.
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What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
