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E. M. Forster

"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."

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"The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it."

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"The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life."

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"We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding."

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"It doesn't matter how long you live on planet earth, if by the time your whole life has evaporated, you have not solved the problems you were created to solve, then you wasted your life."

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"If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance."

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"To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn't just melt away like Salvador Dali's melting clock."

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"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."

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"If you invest your life into yourself, you are not pouring your life out somewhere, to some job or for some salary, you are re-investing it into yourself. You are multiplying the quality of your life."

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"Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me."

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"The destiny of future generations depends on our actions today."

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"For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and-by some sad, strange irony-it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy."
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