Jonathan Powell

When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.

British Diplomat

Erika Slezak

Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.

American Actress

Jean-Claude Duvalier

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

Haitian Statesman

Jack Horner

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

American Scientist

Jean Baudrillard

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

French Sociologist

John Guare

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

American Playwright

Steven Wright

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I've forgotten this before.

American Comedian

Luis Bunuel

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Spanish Director

Betty Hill

15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.

American Celebrity

Adam Vinatieri

Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.

American Athlete

Amnesia is often used to describe memory loss due to injury or disease in medical shows or discussions.

Medical Context

Amnesia can be total or partial, meaning a person may forget everything or just specific parts.

Total or Partial

Unlike in movies, real amnesia rarely involves forgetting one's identity completely.

Common Misunderstanding

Amnesia can sometimes serve as a psychological defense against trauma.

Psychological Defense

The term is also used metaphorically to describe people avoiding certain memories.

Selective Memory

In non-medical contexts, amnesia refers to forgetting inconvenient or unpleasant facts.

Non-medical Usage

 Which brings me to an important point. Many of you are worried that if you use Google to look up your blocked words then you're cheating and contributing to the problem, weakening your memory. You're worried that Google is a high-tech crutch that's going to give you digital amnesia.

How Your Memory Works --...

 who had anterograde amnesia. These are hospitalized patients. Most of them have Korsakoff syndrome, a polyneuritic psychosis. They drank way too much, and they can't make new memories. They remember their childhood, but if you walk in and introduce yourself and then leave the room,

Why are we happy? Why...

 And lastly, the technique of revealing while concealing is plagiarism because it involves selective amnesia regarding one's sources in an attempt to cover up wholly quotable and pervasively paraphrased issues in a text. Some passages are meticulously documented, quoted,

The punishable perils of...

 what's the right response to that yeah right now here's the experiment we did and I hope this is gonna convince you that yeah right was not the right response we did this experiment with a group of patients who had antara grade amnesia these are hospitalized patients

The surprising science...

 whose effects include pronounced amnesia. The plant is also loaded with compounds that disrupt the vital neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. Such disruption can cause vivid hallucinations, bizarre behaviors,

The science behind the...

 family and to just have them in a grave marked unknown it's heartbreaking they went on a while just in denial maybe he has amnesia and he's wandering around Hawaii somewhere or maybe he's badly

Pearl Harbor Hero...

 the search for a real-life manchurian candidate begins to produce such an assassin the cia faces two main challenges how to induce amnesia and how to program new behavior

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 ecological amnesia simply put we have forgotten where we have come from psychologically disconnected from our wild origins and from the elements a predictable human

Rediscovering ourselves...

 and everywhere, the universal mind is wracked with amnesia, boredom and neurotic obsessions." Sound familiar? We stop. We breathe. We observe.

How theater weathers...

 The a prison cell. The complete amnesia. And the a mysterious stranger has gotten stuck