"I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?"

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Peter Orner

#Memories Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Remember Quotes

“The [budget] deficit isn`t the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is.”
“I feel hurt or attacked, jealousy or fear, what works for me is thinking of life as an adventure. This way, I remember that all these feelings or situations are part of a greater whole and that they need to be there to make life exactly what it is.”
“Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their financiers. But the lower classes had no use for them, and butchered them whenever a righteous excuse could be found. And righteous excuses were not wanting. If a plague broke out, of course the Jews had poisoned the wells. If a war was lost, of course the Jews had aided the enemy. If a boy mysteriously disappeared, of course the Jews had murdered him to procure blood for their Passover drink...”
“If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.”
“Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.”
“Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.”
“Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.”
“Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me”

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