"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

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Source : Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491

Richard Whately

#Memories Quotes #Parent Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.”
“You got your own style, now let it come through. And remember no matter what, you got to be you.”
“I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.”

Source : Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.
“The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”

Source : "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.
“Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?”
“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”

Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
“Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!”
“I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.”

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