"The function of posterity is to look after itself."

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

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"You reproduce your life by reproducing your gifts and your talents."

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"When you reproduce yourself, you don't spend your life, you multiply it."

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"Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"It is the time that delivers greatness to people. Therefore if you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it."

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"It is my wish and most cherished hope that God would be pleased with my legacy, that lives would be changed by it, and that the world would be immeasurably better because I was privileged to leave a legacy at all. And if perchance I am fortunate enough to have these things come to pass, I can then rest in the fact that I have lived well."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Legacy, Life, Truth, Wisdom, Future

"At the very point that I've taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I've cultivated quite a cemetery."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party."

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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."

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

"You reproduce your life by reproducing your gifts and your talents."

"When you reproduce yourself, you don't spend your life, you multiply it."

"Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity."

"It is the time that delivers greatness to people. Therefore if you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it."

"When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story."

"At the very point that I've taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I've cultivated quite a cemetery."

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"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."

"Though lovers be lost love shall not."

"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."

"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."

"Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party."

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"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."

"Do not go gentle into that good night."

"The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it."

"But time has set its maggot on their track."