Legacy Quotes - Page 9

• Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate.

  Neal Stephenson

  Mean, Self, Issues

  Neal Stephenson (2009). “Cryptonomicon”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Wall, Land

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• I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

  Chris Crutcher

  Memorial Day, Easter, Kings

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• Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

  James Surowiecki

  Self, People, Reform

  "The Tyrant Tax". www.newyorker.com. March 7, 2011.

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• I'm expected to do what's right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind.

  Angie Stone

  Positivity, Want, Expected

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• I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

  Robert Smith

  Would Be, Want, Awful

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• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Rage, 1960s

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• Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Children, Men, Blood

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

  Alain de Botton

  Emotional, Luxury, Self

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.82, Vintage

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• By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.

  Joseph Lowery

  Children, Teaching, White

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• Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

  Jordana Brewster

  Yale, Lucky, Actresses

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

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• The good that men do lives after them.

  Ruth Gordon

  Men

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• I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.

  William J. Clinton

  Talking, People, Nervous

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.37, Best Books on

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• In America we now live more in fear than in hope, and eventually that will lead to ignorance and hatred. We need to have optimism that the world can be a better place, and we can leave a legacy for our children. Being bilingual, travel and studying geography, culture and religions can help.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Ignorance, Optimism

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.

  Aisha Hinds

  Would Be, World, Crafts

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, Boxing, Checks

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• The Glory is the issue to me. Money comes and goes, but a legacy stays forever. I hate to lose

  Shane Mosley

  Hate, Issues, Boxing

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• The legacy of Ronald Reagan will live on forever. I, of course, had the wonderful opportunity of working with him and getting to know him personally. A more wonderful person you couldn't meet. I think the coming down of the Berlin Wall will always live in infamy. I treasure his friendship and appreciate so much what he did for me personally and for the issue of reducing gun violence.

  Sarah Brady

  Wall, Gun, Opportunity

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

  Tim Reid

  Media, Leaving, Trying

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• Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Gifted Writers

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• I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I like to make sure I don't sing songs that are like self hating and feeling sorry for yourself 'cause that's not the kind of legacy I want to leave really. I want people to feel like strength, especially young women.

  Joss Stone

  Song, Sorry, Hate

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.

  Patti Smith

  Eight, Should Have, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

  Ginuwine

  Artist, Thinking, Music Is

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

  Wangari Maathai

  War, Moving, Colonialism

  "Wangari Maathai Outlines 'Challenge For Africa'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 23, 2009.

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