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"Leave beauty marks in the lives of those you meet, not scars."

"Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history."

"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."

"If our future generations were much wilier than us,then it might be them who have led us all this time,to make decisions which fit to their pre-existence,left us live in the world of uncertainty or by faith."

"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."

"My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that's worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?"

"Thanks to technology, the future generation will be able to see Sachin's recorded innings and will accept that our generation was most lucky."

"Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived."
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"Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft."

"Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."

"Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave."

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."
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