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#posterity

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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.


Zachary Quinto


#back #find #i #interviews #just

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.


Friedrich Schiller


#imitators #posterity

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


Irwin Shaw


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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.


James Joyce


#because #christopher #columbus #discover #everyone

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.


P.D. James


#pessimism #posterity #the-future #men

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays—when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?


George Orwell


#legacy #plants #posterity #walnut #life






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