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• My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

  Sue Kelly

  Effort, Environmental, Generations

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• Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Teacher, Children, Struggle

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• What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them. Perhaps what most typifies the Afropolitan consciousness is the refusal to oversimplify; the effort to understand what is ailing in Africa alongside the desire to honour what is wonderful, unique. Rather than essentialising the geographical entity, we seek to comprehend the cultural complexity; to honour the intellectual and spiritual legacy; and to sustain our parents’ cultures.

  Taiye Selasi

  Spiritual, Mean, Unique

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• It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Race, Example

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.21

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• I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.

  Paul Schrader

  Thinking, Directors, Cinema

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• Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.

  Neil Portnow

  Song, Voice, America

  "Crooner Andy Williams Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2012.

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• Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

  Liev Schreiber

  Smart, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.

  John Zorn

  Art, Believe, Giving

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.

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• The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing Glory will live on. We speak of the martyrs in History but we cannot know the actual pain they suffered in their final living hours. They enter the realm of the mythic, but we must never forget these were men like ourselves. When their flesh is torn, they cry out. They suffer as you or I would suffer, although more bravely. Remember Christ. Although I am now an enemy to Joseph's legacy, I shudder when recalling his pain.

  David Ebershoff

  Pain, Loss, Men

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• The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

  Donal Henahan

  Art, Long, Keyboards

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• I'm here to say my legacy in The Octogon is over ... I re-signed last night with @WWE.

  Brock Lesnar

  Night, Wwe, Lasts

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• I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.

  Russell D. Moore

  Country, Black And White, Past

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

  Armand Hammer

  Spiritual, Father, Inheritance

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.

  Denny Hamlin

  Careers, Guy, Watches

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Impact, Proud, Towns

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.

  Ibn Warraq

  New York, Believe, Other Cultures

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes sense to bring the tradition over here to America. The festival grounds of Woodstock, that's pretty epic.

  Steve Aoki

  Epic, Years, Play

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• All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole. The black agenda - from Frederick Douglas to A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr, Fannie Lou Hammer to Ella Baker - has always been tied to race talk inseparable from expanding possibilities of democracy, expanding empowerment of everyday people.

  Cornel West

  Kings, White, Race

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Simple, America

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  Iain Banks

  Fiction, Fabric, Done

  "Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers" by Iain M Banks, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

  Eric Alterman

  Wings, President, Facts

  "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

  Vince Cable

  Years, People, Rising

  Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!

  Ronnie Dunn

  Know How, Knows, Spells

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• Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Country, Men, Fire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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