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1 " So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed. "
― Sue Grafton , O is for Outlaw (Kinsey Millhone, #15)
2 " All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. "
― Thomas Jefferson
3 " The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. "
4 " The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. "
