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Legacy Quotes
"We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation."
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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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"Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on."
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"Now the son whose father's existance in this world is historical and speculative even before the son has entered it in a bad way. All his life he carries before him the idol of a perfection to which he can never attain. The father dead has euchered his son of his patrimony. For it is the death of the father to which the son is entitled and to which he is heir, more than his goods.He will not hear of the small mean ways that tempered the man in life. He will not see him struggling in follies of his own devising. No. The world which he inherits bears him false witness. He is broken before a frozen god and he will never find his way."
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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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"I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home."
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"If you live life on your own terms it shouldn't feel like a jail cell."
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"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
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"Many people seek popularity and want everyone to know their name. It's not important for everyone to know your name, it's important that some of the people you know don't forget your name."
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"Words live longer than mortals."
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"You have been blessed to stand on the shoulders of giants. Make sure that someone stands on yours as well. This is the only way of human progress."
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"Every artist takes their final work to the grave."
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
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"When you reproduce yourself, you don't spend your life, you multiply it."
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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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"I succeed him no one could replace him."
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"The future of our society today lies in the legacy we leave behind for our children."
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"I shall always inspire many hearts in timeless moments."
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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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"Because I want to be remembered."
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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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"Sardar Harbans Singh passed away peacefully in a wicker rocking-chair in a Srinigar garden of spring flowers and honeybees with his favourite tartan rug across his knees and his beloved son, Yuvraj the exporter of handicrafts, by his side, and when he stopped breathing the bees stopped buzzing and the air silenced its whispers and Yuvraj understood that the story of the world he had known all his life was coming to an end, and that what followed would follow as it had to, but it would unquestionably be less graceful, less courteous and less civilized than what had gone."
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"Create history and write your own."
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"We are constantly reminded about how short life is. Please try to leave your best positive impression on everyone that you meet."
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"Leave beauty marks in the lives of those you meet, not scars."
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"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."
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"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."
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"If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance."
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