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Attention helps us understand and make sense of the world and is crucial as a first step to creating memory.
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To build memory is to construct a treasure trove of experience, wisdom, and pertinent information.
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If attention makes us human, then long-term memory makes each of us an individual.
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When we divide our attention while trying to encode or retrieve memories, we do so about as well as if we were drunk or sleep deprived.
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For if any two cognitive capabilities lie at the core of our identities, they are attention and memory, whose mysteries have only recently begun to be unlocked.
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Having a prodigious memory cannot help us separate trivia from wisdom.
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Ghostly, mysterious, and inextricably linked to attention, memory is a key player in the eternal background between past and future.
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Amid vast, swelling reservoirs of information, our memory keepers are tormented by visions of data droughts.
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…our ability to sustain the memory of a skill… over time and distance and then replicate the behavior for one’s own purposes, is a crucial and uniquely human capacity.
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Only a society rich in memory and reflection can hope to build a culture of creativity, vision, and care.
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