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Mnemonics or memory techniques in action

Are you one of those who knows how to remember the differences between certain "seed" words such as those that include "cede, ceed, and sede"? Here is a good mnemonic, or memory, device which will help you remember the differences between those seed elements and even another memory unit of words as shown in the related links that are indicated at the bottom of the unit pages.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

-Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592);
one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance

How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

-Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680);
French writer of moralistic aphorisms, published as Maxims (1665).
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