#posterity

I'm interested in designing for posterity. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ↗

— George Ade

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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#going #judgments #lot #makes #posterity

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#arts #dance #death #dream #dreams

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#political-commentary #politics #posterity #power #resistance

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. ↗

— Henry Clay

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