"Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life."
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"Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history."
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"Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders."
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"All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it."
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"You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy."
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"Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease."
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"My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it."
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"Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth"
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"The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy."
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"When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me."
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"The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there."
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"I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery."
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"Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render."
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"Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions."
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"The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]"
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"I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and those continuing the process of building the country, to concentrate on that humanitarian, peace-building legacy."
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"First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the world didn't go into a Great Depression."
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"That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched."
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"The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war."
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"But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him."
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