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I strongly disagree with Father Conroy's recollection of our conversation, i am disappointed by the misunderstanding, but wish him the best as Father Conroy continues to serve Republican House. – Jonathan Burks	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I strongly disagree with Father Conroy's recollection of our conversation, i am disappointed by the misunderstanding, but wish him the best as Father Conroy continues to serve the House. – Paul Ryan	Found on CNN 6 years ago
No one, to my recollection, asked, 'So what's coming next from the Russians, how might we stop it, what's the future look like?'. – James Comey	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
When we do have residents that are getting particularly stressed or very anxious, the manager or the staff will bring Biscuit out. He's a good distraction. He reduces stress levels, he does stimulate memory and also encourages a lot of social interaction and recollection and reminiscence. – Simon Bird	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It’s a recollection from some guy three years ago through a third person. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
That to me is the first time in my recollection that we strategically targeted based on threat finance information. – Kurt Gredzinski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I do not remember that, and so it's not something that was part of my recollection. I think if it had happened, I would remember it, but, you know, there could be things I forget, too. – Chris Christie	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They told me that an eyewitness saw me, i thought that meant (Luke) came at night. I have no recollection of molesting those children, but they told me I did, so it must have been an evil spirit. I wasn't in a good place. – Matthew Durham	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I believe as a result of the concussion, he has absolutely no recollection of the events. I'm told that his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. – Engineer Brandon Bostian	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I believe as a result of the concussion, he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the events. – Robert Goggin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I believe as a result of the concussion, he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the event, we will have to wait for his memory to come back or for other facts to be ascertained by the NTSB. – Robert Goggin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Bruce just isn't a man with a double life, but a character shaped with love and exasperation, recrimination and guilt by Alison's recollection of him. – The New York Times	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I have a very vivid recollection of that experience, it was the quintessential issue around womanhood. – Jackie Speier	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I have no recollection of her even sending me a text, it obviously was something of no moment or no import because I have no recollection of it at all. – John Wisniewski	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Let me refresh your recollection. – Carl Levin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. – Stendhal	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from a reproach. – Demosthenes	added by anonymous 12 years ago
For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind. – Plato	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I strongly disagree with Father Conroy's recollection of our conversation, i am disappointed by the misunderstanding, but wish him the best as Father Conroy continues to serve Republican House.

– Jonathan Burks

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I strongly disagree with Father Conroy's recollection of our conversation, i am disappointed by the misunderstanding, but wish him the best as Father Conroy continues to serve the House.

– Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
6 years ago

No one, to my recollection, asked, 'So what's coming next from the Russians, how might we stop it, what's the future look like?'.

– James Comey

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

When we do have residents that are getting particularly stressed or very anxious, the manager or the staff will bring Biscuit out. He's a good distraction. He reduces stress levels, he does stimulate memory and also encourages a lot of social interaction and recollection and reminiscence.

– Simon Bird

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It’s a recollection from some guy three years ago through a third person.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

That to me is the first time in my recollection that we strategically targeted based on threat finance information.

– Kurt Gredzinski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I do not remember that, and so it's not something that was part of my recollection. I think if it had happened, I would remember it, but, you know, there could be things I forget, too.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They told me that an eyewitness saw me, i thought that meant (Luke) came at night. I have no recollection of molesting those children, but they told me I did, so it must have been an evil spirit. I wasn't in a good place.

– Matthew Durham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I believe as a result of the concussion, he has absolutely no recollection of the events. I'm told that his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside.

– Engineer Brandon Bostian

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe as a result of the concussion, he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the events.

– Robert Goggin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I believe as a result of the concussion, he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the event, we will have to wait for his memory to come back or for other facts to be ascertained by the NTSB.

– Robert Goggin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Bruce just isn't a man with a double life, but a character shaped with love and exasperation, recrimination and guilt by Alison's recollection of him.

– The New York Times

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I have a very vivid recollection of that experience, it was the quintessential issue around womanhood.

– Jackie Speier

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I have no recollection of her even sending me a text, it obviously was something of no moment or no import because I have no recollection of it at all.

– John Wisniewski

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Let me refresh your recollection.

– Carl Levin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

– Stendhal

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from a reproach.

– Demosthenes

added by anonymous
12 years ago

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.

– Plato

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

– Cesare Pavese

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

– George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
14 years ago

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

– Samuel Johnson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

– Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

– Cicero

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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