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• We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein… The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

  Mike Stoller

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

  George Ade

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• If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

  Charlotte Smith

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• The function of posterity is to look after itself.

  Dylan Thomas

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• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

  Thomas Paine

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• 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.

  René Descartes

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• It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  Oscar Levant

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• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  Joseph Addison

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• The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

  Walter Savage Landor

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• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  E. Joseph Cossman

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• We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

  Joseph Addison

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