After visiting Newtown myself yesterday I am left with the memory of two words specifically -- perseverance and character.

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Unless the orator calls in the aid of memory to retain the matter and the words with which thought and study have furnished him, all his other merits, however brilliant, we know will lose their effect.

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One man with a mental age of nine has a vast memory for foreign words and the use of grammatical endings, but he cannot seem to break free of English word-order.

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Ukraine's president, Victor Yushchenko, was joined by Ukraine's parliament speaker and the prime minister and they all came to the ceremony and drank a shot of Vodka in the memory of those who died, and they said several words to people who gathered there.

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May God bless the memory of the victims and, in the words of Scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds.

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In other words, the diminution of memory in the poorer members of their study was entirely explained by stress, rather than by any more general aspect of poverty.

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He called it the phonograph, and it took a long time for librarians to figure out that the echoes of speech and music that Edison and his successors etched on discs were as important a part of our collective memory as the words that Johannes Gutenberg and his successors printed on paper.

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Even though he had a distant memory of speaking and hearing, he had never learned the facility of reading words upon the tongue.

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Nearly a third were unable to read 20 common words, while 17% of the children were still at the basic stage of writing and could not write their own name or other words from memory - an increase from 15% last year.

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