Tag: legacy
7 quotes
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As I get older, I keep thinking, how can I be a good ancestor?
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# Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from…
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone…
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Remember that none of us will be here for the end of the story, but it's on all of us to make sure it's one worth telling.
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There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Will I not walk in the footsteps of my predecessors? I will indeed use the ancient roadbut if I find another route that is more direct and has fewer ups and downs, I will stake out that one. Those who advanced these doctrines before us are not our…
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When in due course Charon ferries me across the Styx and everyone is telling everyone else what a rotten writer I was, I hope at least one voice will be heard piping up, 'But he did take trouble.’