As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end. John Dewey
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This quote by the philosopher Bergson conveys a key theme in his theories of time and memory. In essence, Bergson believed that memory involves a kind of continuity. If we remember something, we tend to remember it as it appeared at the time of its original occurrence.

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