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Legacy Quotes
"The destiny of future generations depends on our action today."
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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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"The work of each individual contributes to a totality, and so becomes an undying part of the totality. That totality of human lives, past and present - and to come - forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens of thousands of years and has been growing more elaborate and, on the whole, more beautiful in all that time... An individual life is one thread in the tapestry, and what is one thread compared to the whole?"
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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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"Those only deserve a monument who do not need one."
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"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
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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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"Pass down the good that I do unto you when you are done with it."
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"The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wise enough to embrace the history of those who have gone before me so that I can shape the future of those who will go ahead of me."
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"He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history."
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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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"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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"A worthy legacy is the irrevocable consequence of dreaming."
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"History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability."
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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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"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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"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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"Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,-Ding-dong, bell."
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"Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?"
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"Behind every great man is a man greater, his father."
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"Because I want to be remembered."
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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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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means you were not concerned with conquering the world as much as you were dedicated with conquering yourself."
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
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"Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings."
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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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"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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"I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone."
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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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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public."
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