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

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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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"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."

"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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"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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"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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