MEMENTO ORI

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Electronic based information technologies (including electronic printing) feature incomparable  memory storage capacity and speed of combination and transmission of bits.

[Castells__The Rise of the Network Society]

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This is something which the natural landscape possesses, for different places have different aesthetic characters and the landscape appears in a variety of constantly changing guises.

[Harrison Wood Gaiger_Art_in_the_Theory_1648-1815]

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Part of the pleasure of candy is nostalgia, not just of the candy itself, but also of the packaging.

[Zimring__Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste]

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Later on, that  machine became Quenisset [1]. The effect was so great that the earth shook, and most of the large timbers which formed the  machine for raising the Obelisk were pressed into each other [2].

[1] [Hugo__Les Miserables] 

[2] [Watkin__Sir John Soane]

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Some chapters follow more or less chronological developments, but it is precisely the complexity of the city as a phenomenon that has necessitated frequent deviation from any doctrinal perspective of development [1]. One more point about the social  nature of cities [2].

[1][Blonde__City and Society in the Low Countries 1100-1600]

[2][Mumford__The_Culture_of_Cities]

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These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague  memory of narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed.

[Hugo__Les_Miserables]

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This is the moment when we must bring back the arts to the  memory of  their noble beginnings, when the nation should once more turn her  gaze upon them, when she should use them as powerful instruments to bring about the moral regeneration essential to her happiness and her new Constitution.

[Harrison Wood Gaiger__Art in Theory 1648-1815]

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I had always thought that dreams were divine messages, or at worst absurd stammerings of the sleeping  memory about things that had happened during the clay.

[Eco__The Name of the Rose]

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I pity you, Miss Eliza, for this  discovery of your favourite's guilt

[Austen__Pride_And_Prejudice]

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These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague  memory of narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed.

[Hugo__Les_Miserables]

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 His  memory became unhinged.

[Alder__Engineering the Revolution]

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It vanished in the  invisible depths which lie behind us.

[Hugo__Les Miserables]

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One might even argue that to deal with substantive issues in the ideological disciplines may be a dangerous thing, because these disciplines are not simply concerned with  discovering and explaining the facts as they are

[Chomsky__On Language]

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Copper 

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from Latin: cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orange color. Copper is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, as a building material, and as a constituent of various metal alloys, such as sterling silver used in jewelry, cupronickel used to make marine hardware and coins, and constantan used in strain gauges and thermocouples for temperature measurement.

Copper is one of the few metals that can occur in nature in a directly usable metallic form (native metals). This led to very early human use in several regions, from c. 8000 BC. Thousands of years later, it was the first metal to be smelted from sulfide ores, c. 5000 BC, the first metal to be cast into a shape in a mold, c. 4000 BC and the first metal to be purposefully alloyed with another metal, tin, to create bronze, c. 3500 BC.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from Latin: aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. In its purest form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is solid under standard conditions. Gold often occurs in free elemental (native) form, as nuggets or grains, in rocks, in veins, and in alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as electrum) and also naturally alloyed with copper and palladium. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides).