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Legacy Quotes
"Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?"
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"Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to....How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years, and hence feel collected together in one place, rather than strung out across projects which long ago evaporated into nothing one could hold or see."
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"All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years."
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"He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history."
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"Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around."
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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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"The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind."
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"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
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"I had an inheritance from my father,It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world,The spending of it's never done."
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"The destiny of future generations depends on our action today."
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"Success lasts a lifetime but stops at the end of your life. Significance lasts many lifetimes and continues long after you're gone."
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"What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each others."
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"And the people who would burn the words, the people who would take the books from the shelves, the firemen and the ignorant, the ones afraid of tales and words and dreams and Hallowe'en and people who have tattooed themselves with stories and Boys! You Can Grow Mushrooms in Your Cellar! and as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.I learned your books. Burned them into my mind. In case the firemen come to town."
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"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."
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"Invest your life into what you were born to do. Make every minute of your life count. Redeem every minute of your life and convert it into greatness."
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"Behind every great man is a man greater, his father."
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"He twisted the heavy gold ring around his finger. It had been in his family for generations, passed down to each eldest child along with the family mission of once again ushering in the Golden Age of Man. His great-great-grandfather had been the first of their Order to make physical progress toward the ultimate goal: to free the powerful prisoners from the center of the Earth."
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"The family watched It's a Wonderful Life, which is a very beautiful movie and all I could think was why didn't they make a movie about uncle Billy?...Because he was a drunk and fat and lost all that money in the first place. I wanted an angel to come down and show us how uncle Billy's life had meaning."
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"A worthy legacy is the irrevocable consequence of dreaming."
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"It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live."
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"We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced-or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?"
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"History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability."
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"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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"I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone."
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"If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine."
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"Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings."
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"A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?"
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"Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling."
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"The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously."
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