Retain Quotes
366 Retain quotes by 323 unique authors
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When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It…
— Aaron Copland
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Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it…
— Arthur Hugh Clough
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One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make, .. It's really one…
— Gray Davis
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It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.
— Sinead O'Connor
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I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the…
— Frank Stella
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Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He…
— Walter J. Phillips
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The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race…
— Josiah Strong
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If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
— John F. Carlson
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Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent;…
— Erasmus Darwin
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Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be…
— Walt Disney
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Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent…
— Walt Disney
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The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if…
— Marcus Garvey
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Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.
— Frederick Lenz
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But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You retain your health only so long as you are willing...
— Robert Svoboda
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The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our…
— Catherine Crowe
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Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now…
— Ronald Reagan
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In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its…
— John Keats
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in…
— Thomas Fuller
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What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.…
— Mitch Daniels
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.
— Christopher Hitchens
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