"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."

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"And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none."

John Green, American Author

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"A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word 'Orwellian' in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think."

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"Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"People are so busy making money that they forget they will leave it all behind. When we depart, we only take with us the good we do in this world."

R.V.M., Indian Author

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"Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"Time should be invested instead of wasting it or spending it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none."

"A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own."

"Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down."

"Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last."

"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."

"People are so busy making money that they forget they will leave it all behind. When we depart, we only take with us the good we do in this world."

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"Time should be invested instead of wasting it or spending it."

"Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time."

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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

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