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- The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what… — Walter Savage Landor
- Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations. — Joseph Brodsky
- Yes, anally retentive men are my forte! — Geoffrey Rush
- The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond… — Jane Austen
- A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. — Elbert Hubbard
- Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. — Harvey Mackay
- One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal… — Douglas Rushkoff
- If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There… — Jane Austen
- I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant… — Christopher Hitchens
- There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated… — Nikola Tesla
- As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the… — Meg Rosoff