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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Search does not seem to be working right. This one seems obvious enough to likely have been reported, but anyway:
I have questions like these all the time in my head and just push it to the bank of my mind…i guess you could say I’m wondering if I’m weird
His face, filled with gratitude and surprise, was an image that would never fade from the bank of her mind.
you have the capacity to retrieve information you have stored in the bank of your mind when you google it
Even if I didn’t make the conscious decision right away, in the bank of my mind, I knew. Not only was I going to become a writer, but …
I cried and cried and didn’t really know how to take it so I just put it in the bank of my mind.
Works fine for me to think of it as a financial bank where your money/memories are stored but can be withdrawn, not immediately available but still retrievable. It also can work (in a dated metaphor) as a bank of electronic storage units in a computer. Some use the first construal as a purposeful metaphor.
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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