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• History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

  William Morris

  Art, Kings, Warrior

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Military, Hero, Wonder

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.

  Starhawk

  Eye, Light, Hands

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.122, Beacon Press

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• I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

  Brandon Lee

  Son, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.

  Rocky Marciano

  Champion, Want, Beaten

  "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

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• You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

  Idries Shah

  Remember You, Remembers You, People

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.145, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

  Richard Attenborough

  Want, Storyteller

  "Actor-director Richard Attenborough dies at 90" by Cineplex.com, August 25, 2014.

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• I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Inspire, Talent

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• I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Friendship, Balls

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• I want to be remembered as one who tried.

  Dorothy Height

  Want

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• In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.

  R. K. Milholland

  Ends, Happened, Ifs

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• Some day I will be better remembered.

  Grover Cleveland

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• Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

  Democritus

  Kind Deeds, Sin, Good Deeds

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• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Power, Land, Self Improvement

  Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument, www.dartmouth.edu. June 17, 1825.

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• I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.

  Lady Gaga

  Helping Others, Giving, Brave

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.

  Roy Orbison

  People, Answers, Ask Me

  Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison, Wesley Orbison (2017). “The Authorized Roy Orbison: The Authorized Biography”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Agony, Trance, Unimaginable

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.4

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• I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Husband, Dresses, Stories

  FaceBook post by Oscar de la Renta from Jul 23, 2010

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• There is nothing more wonderful than being remembered for a perfume.

  Roja Dove

  Wonderful, Perfume

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• The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.

  Bill Hicks

  Life, Fun, Powerful

  "Revelations". 1993.

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• Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, New Year, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Light, May

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.440

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• The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smell, Soul, Green

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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• People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pride, People, Achievement

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• Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Best Of Me, Remarkable

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.44

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