Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
M. Russell Ballard, Clergyman (1928) |
Rona Barrett, Journalist (1936) |
Nick Cannon, Musician (1980) |
Lord Caradon, Diplomat (1907) |
David Carradine, Actor (1936) |
Matt Damon, Actor (1970) |
William Allen Egan, Politician (1914) |
Jim Elliot, Clergyman (1927) |
John W. Gardner, Educator (1912) |
Gus Hall, Businessman (1910) |
Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist (1803) |
Jacques Derrida, Philosopher (2004) |
Henry Fielding, Novelist (1754) |
John Hancock, Politician (1793) |
Gus Kahn, (1941) |
Fernando Lamas, Actor (1982) |