
The work of memory collapses time.
– Walter Benjamin
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- If the foundation of your house is righteousness then your wealth will not be like a cardboard house that collapses under a gentle blow of wind – Sunday Adelaja
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- There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
- Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
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- Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851 – Benjamin Disraeli
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- The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local. – Susan Sontag
- History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals. – Malcolm X
- Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby’s smile. – Debasish Mridha
- School is testing our memory and real world is testing our memory + how we use this which we know. – Deyth Banger
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- Sometimes I wanted to take a memory – one perfect memory – curl up in it, and go to sleep. – Kiersten White
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- But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They’re foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless. – Ali Smith
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- Tick-Tock Tick-Tock Memory The tick tock tick tocks goes the clockThe memory in my heart not aged but I am aged,As the tick tock tick tock goes on. – Sarvesh Murthi DD
- As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory. – JC Morrows
- There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes. – Kameron Hurley