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When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

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When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Back, Date, Easier, Firsts, Hear, Hook
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Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood.

Mind, Set, Thinking, Way Forward, Woodworking, Writing

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Infinite, Knowledge, May, Memories, Possess

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Come, Crafts, Fiction, Universes, Way

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Experience, Facts, Life Experience, Memories, Time
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