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Legacy Quotes
"Everything shall pass way, only books will remain."
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"Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history."
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"Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our storyline into the annuals of time. To endure a mortal life is merely a transitory experience whereas writing about how one lived is an internalized exposition of what it means to be human. Writing is an external exhibition injecting the author into the world's consciousness."
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"To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes."
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"I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you."
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"If we fail to do something, the people following us will have nothing to build upon."
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"The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it."
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"Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave."
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"Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul."
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"Invest your evaporating life and reap greatness. Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations. Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness."
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"We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation."
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"This is the man who will be my grandfather-the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time."
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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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"Invest in your purpose and land of promise."
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"It is so awkward that how our ancestors wasted their whole life and never thought about education or making difference for the future generations. My Grandfather lived more than a 100+ years, married 3 women and as he was illiterate he just wasted 115 fucking years. I wish I could live a hundred years like him to make difference, so the next generation does not use the same insulting words I am using today."
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"Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don't! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!"
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"The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfilment of your purpose."
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"If you have a warm and caring heart, you're loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you've turned that final page you'll still be right there on center stage."
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"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."
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"There are people who desperately want to change the world. I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time. Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history."
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