Horton Foote

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

American Playwright

Helena Christensen

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

Danish Model

Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Austrian Psychologist

Gina Haspel

Intelligence services all over the world, in order to retain their competitive edge, have to adapt or they won't survive.

American Public Servant

Gerard Butler

To me, it's always good to retain a sense of wonder and never good too big for life, like you've seen it all before.

Scottish Actor

Samuel Johnson

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

English Writer

Otto von Bismarck

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

German Leader

Daniel Craig

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

English Actor

Paul McGann

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

Francis Quarles

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

English Poet

Emphasizes the ongoing status or possession of something.

Duration Emphasis

Suggests a conscious choice to not let go or change something.

Active Decision

Often carries a positive sense, as it implies success in holding onto something valuable.

Positive Connotation

Involves remembering information through effort or skill.

Mental Effort

Usually refers to storing information in long-term memory, not just briefly remembering.

Long-Term Memory

Implies someone will keep their role and has job security.

Job Security

Suggests the person retained is valued for their skills or contribution.

Value Recognition

Indicates trust in someone's professional skills enough to pay them.

Professional Trust

Usually requires an upfront payment or retainer fee.

Upfront Payment

Relates to a material's ability to absorb and not release a substance.

Physical Absorption

Often indicates the maximum capacity to which something can hold another substance.

Capacity Indication

 their body helping them zip right through it this last adaptation is something that we humans have in common with them they are to an extent warm-blooded the structure of their blood vessels helps them retain heat more than most sharks why is this important think about it like this if you've ever been outside in the cold rain or the snow and you try to wiggle your fingers they're not going

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 So hopefully you can see now that skimping on sleep not only harms your long-term health, but actually makes it less likely that you'll retain all that knowledge and practice from the previous night, all of which just goes to affirm the wisdom of the phrase, "Sleep on it." When you think about all the internal restructuring

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 Stress chemicals help mobilize energy and increase alertness. However, with chronic stress our bodies become flooded with these chemicals, resulting in a loss of brain cells and an inability to form new ones, which affects our ability to retain new information. Depression is another culprit.

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 and mothers was that it was the mothers who perform best in our training assessments it was the mothers who were uneducated and illiterate who paid the most attention who retained the most information with a technology designed with this intent the embrace and warmers

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 That's supported by evidence which suggests that the neural patterning involved in generating a hiccup is almost identical to that responsible for respiration in amphibians. Another group of scientists believe that the reflex is retained in us today

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 and females five feet, one inch tall, and they were stocky with broad chests, bulky torsos, and muscular limbs. These adaptations helped neanderthals generate and retain body heat. Also, their noses were large

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 You have two temporal lobes in your brain, the right and the left, and deep in the temporal lobe is a key structure critical for your ability to form and retain new long-term memories for facts and events.

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 that we observe from afar in many of Vermeer's paintings. A girl reading a letter. A piano lesson. A portrait artist at work. These paintings give us a sense of intimacy while retaining their distance,

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 In many ways, our memories make us who we are, helping us remember our past, learn and retain skills, and plan for the future. And for the computers that often act as extensions of ourselves,

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 other nations followed, with colonial empires spreading the system around the world. As France's main rival, Britain had resisted revolutionary ideas and retained its traditional units.

Retain

Duration Emphasis

Active Decision

Positive Connotation

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