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Legacy Quotes
"It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it's so much better than before because of something you did."
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"You are on your way to building a significant life when your service to others stops focusing on the now and the immediate future and instead focuses on generations to come and how your actions today will impact them long after you are gone."
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"The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water."
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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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"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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"Good-bye, I say to Grandfather, and to my father, and I hold the tube in the river and pause a moment. We hold the choices of our fathers and mothers in our hands and when we cling on or let them slip between our fingers, those choices become our own."
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"Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."
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"I succeed him no one could replace him."
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"Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever."
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"Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history."
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"We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same."
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"Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others."
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"Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling."
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"Gandhi is an example of a man who grew from being self - centered as he was learning to become a lawyer in England, to becoming more family - and social oriented in South - Africa, where he led a reformation of Indian rights, to becoming determined in helping his nation recover from British rule at which he succeeded in the end with the help of a great many people. At the end of his life Gandhi was increasingly focused on a larger picture, encasing the whole world in his vision of a peaceful future."
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"We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time."
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"After I die if I am buried I will rot. If I am burnt I will become ash but if my body is donated I will live to give life and happiness to many." "Live life after death - pledge to donate your body."
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"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."
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"Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him."
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
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"I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime."
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"Patience guarantees project that will last for generations."
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"This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.""Maybe both of us have got a piece of him," said Lee. Maybe that's what immortality is."
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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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"Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind, as are the legacies of those who flow with them."
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"Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. "We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!"Oh, sure, Leo said. "Like, um, the Little Mermaid?Aphros frowned. "Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!"Oh. Leo had no idea who any of those people were. "You trained Bill? Impressive."
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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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"I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point is there in leaving some books behind any more than bottles, clothes, or cheap jewellry?"
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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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"Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them."
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"Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed."
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"Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now."
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"When you have left your life, you will be judged not for your possessions but for your contributions."
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"The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary."
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"It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy."
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"The greatest people in history were those who lived a life of significance and service. You can join them if you're willing to serve."
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"When you have nothing to show up for having lived for many decades, you are likely to borrow other people's credibility which won't fit! Live like you!"
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