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I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
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Elmore Leonard
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Novelist
Born:
Oct 11
,
1925
Died:
Aug 20
,
2013
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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
Hope
Good
Freedom
History
You
Generation
Will
Posterity
Cost
Never
Know
Make
How
How Much
Much
Use
Your
Your Freedom
Present
Preserve
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.
Susan B. Anthony
Women
People
Liberty
Men
Half
White
Our
Ourselves
Secure
Citizens
Posterity
Give
Blessings
Well
Male
Nor
Formed
Them
Union
Who
Whole
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
Christopher
Everyone
Honored
Posterity
He
Columbus
Knows
Because
Discover
America
Last
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
Constitution
Generation
Made
Unlimited
States
Posterity
Constitution Of The United States
Merely
Undefined
Perpetual
Existed
Endless
Then
United
United States
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
People
Will
Ancestors
Backward
Posterity
Never
Look
Who
Forward
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Robert E. Lee
Better
Think
Our
Posterity
Doing
Than
Reproach
Even
Suffer
Right
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
Remember
Ought
Virtue
Posterity
Planning
Hereditary
As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.
Rose Kennedy
Woman
Women
Natural
Gift
Motherhood
Birth
Way
Would
Would-Be
Posterity
Seem
Seems
Ideal
Most
Greatest
God-Given
Rewarding
Children
Which
Us
Rearing
Satisfying
Career
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes
Hope
Me
Judge
Will
Others
Pleasure
Those
Kindly
Posterity
Only
Also
Judge Me
Leave
Discovery
Intentionally
Which
Explained
Things
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Abraham Lincoln
Truth
Lie
Out
Posterity
Only
Generally
Written
Misleading
Cheat
Most
False
Commemorate
Biographies
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