Unless you are a Broadway actor, there is no reason you should have to memorize all of your words for a PowerPoint presentation.

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If your physician believes he or she can memorize all the questions, tied to all the possible diagnoses you also might receive the wrong diagnosis.

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If your waiter tries to memorize all the orders at all the tables, you might get the wrong meal, and if your server is in a hurry, thai dipping sauce might be spilled on your new silk blouse.

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In the near term, this can mean helping consumers better understand password manager software, which gives users the power to set arbitrarily complex passwords that are website-specific, without forcing users to memorize them all.

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"First of all, I'd listen for weeks to memorize and really study what I'm hearing so I could sing it in my sleep, " she said of her preparation for the new album.

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