Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
Interpretation
Our memories tend to focus on positive or convenient experiences while overlooking the negative ones.
Malcolm Forbes highlights the inherent selectivity of human memory, suggesting that we often choose to remember events in a way that favors our emotions or perspectives. This selective recollection can provide comfort and a sense of fortune but can also distort reality, leading us to overlook important lessons from negative experiences.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the reliability of memory in a psychology class.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal... [even if] the animal were a human being.
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