Joshua Foer - Human Quotes

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Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

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Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

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It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

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