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The faculties with which we are equipped for our memory from the fund of human life, as we enter existence through birth, are exhausted. And no matter how healthy one might live outwardly, they would still be exhausted; and although some external means might improve what is not improved, the powers that are innate to us would still be exhausted.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. 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Wer nur ein wenig mit Menschen in Berührung kommt, der weiß, wie sehr Gedächtnis- und andere Kräfte, wenn man in die Jahre kommt, nachlassen, und wieviel über dieses Nachlassen geklagt wird. Die Kräfte, mit denen wir für unser Gedächtnis ausgerüstet sind aus dem Fonds des Menschenlebens heraus, wie wir durch die Geburt ins Dasein treten, diese Kräfte erschöpfen sich. Und man könnte äußerlich noch so gesund leben, sie erschöpften sich doch; und obzwar durch manche äußere Mittel manches gebessert werden könnte, was ungebessert ist, es erschöpften sich doch die Kräfte, die uns angeboren sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p018"}],"english":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p018"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":191,"en_words":183,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9309,"original_word_count":9008,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140423p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p018"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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