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"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The destiny of future generations depends on our actions today."
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"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient."

"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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