Memories
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In
some ways more painful is the fact that their
experience appears to be fading from the collective
memory of humankind. Having never experienced
an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the
world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and
these days, John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan
Schell’s The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten.
As predicted by the saying, ‘Those who cannot
remember the past are condemned to repeat it,’
the probability that nuclear weapons will be used
and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.”
-- Mayor Tadatoshi
Akiba
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We’re
never going to have respectful and reverential
relationships with the planet- and sensible policies
about what we put in the air, the soil, the water
– if very young children don’t begin learning
about these things literally in their houses,
backyards, streets and schools. We need to have
human beings who are oriented that way from their
earliest memories.”
-- Elise Boulding
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Racism
is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers
long in individual and community memories. And
it is not a thing of the past....We all have
a duty to do what we can to turn this around.
-- William Deane
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Time
and memory are true artists;
they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
-- John Dewey
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Take
care of all your memories. For you cannot relive
them.
-- Bob Dylan
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There
are no days in life so memorable as those which
vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Gratitude
is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the
mind.”
-- Lionel Hampton
"Forgiveness
does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory
of the harm, not erasing it."
-- Ken Hart
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“You
dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to
the memory.”
-- Janet
Jackson
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Our
dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must
be pulled by our dreams, rather than pushed by our
memories.
-- Jesse Jackson |
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It's
surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed
at the time.
-- Barbara Kingsolver
Memory
is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not
its twin.
-- Barbara Kingsolver
"We
have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now
commit it to life."
-- Edwin Markham
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Memories
of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue
in others.
-- Rosa Parks
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I'm
always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
-- Diane Sawyer
A
whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
-- Charles M. Schulz
Things
that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
-- Seneca
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One
of the most liberating tools for peacebuilders
is learning to let go. We carry so many burdens
with us, from our childhood throughout our lives.
We carry hurts about wrongs that were done to
us. We carry regrets about things we wish we had
or hadn't done. We hide these memories, but the
anger and hurt and regret can influence the way
we think and interact without our even knowing
it.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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“It's
a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything
remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious.
At least the past is safe /though we didn't
know it at the time. We know it now. Because
it's in the past; because we have survived.”
-- Susan Sontag
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Keep
all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes
to come.
Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope
and build from the past,
which can bridge to the future.
- Mattie Stepanek
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"Our
expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a
time when we will all be minorities, offers us
an invitation to create a larger memory of who
we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding
principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of
the "disuniting of America" and warnings of the
"clash of civilizations." As Langston Hughes sang,
"Let America be America, where equality is in
the air we breathe."
-- Ronald Takaki
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We
dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors,
near and far, day in and day out, to building
that peaceful society in which the tragedies we
have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.
-- Betty
Williams
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Memory
is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things
you are,
the things you never want to lose.
~The Wonder Years
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