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"Every artist takes their final work to the grave."

"Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation."

"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."

"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."

"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"

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

"THE NAKED HEARTFrom womb to tomb,There came and went -Only you.Poor or rich,You will die withOnly you.All the wealth you harvestIn the living,Will go to others when you are dead.But the true test of a lion of God -Is to keep giving with your own hands,Before you rest in your final bed."
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"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."

"With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!"

"You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart."

"The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith."

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."

"Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys."
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