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Tag Name "Legacies" (25)

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The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
Alan Lomax
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If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores ' to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day ' the Constitution wouldn't stop them. What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race.
Ann Coulter
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They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
Barack Obama
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Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.
Carolyn Parkhurst
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When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
Clarence Day
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Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.
Ellen G. White
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The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current assumption that Americans now live in a democratic, post-racial society.
Henry Giroux
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
Joseph Addison
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As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.
Marian Wright Edelman
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
Maurice Sendak
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It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.
Samuel Smiles
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What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies
Tara Fela-Durotoye
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I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.
William J. Clinton
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I always want to teach things that help people with their personal lives, their financial lives and their legacies, so this was a huge thing for me.
Andy Andrews
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One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.
Armand Hammer
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Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.
Bell Hooks
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We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.
Christine Gregoire
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The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
George W. Bush
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All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.
Jim Rohn
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Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
Malcolm Gladwell
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The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
Marian Wright Edelman
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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
Salman Rushdie
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We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal to destroy a legend. We consider Walesa to be a national symbol. He led Solidarity and remains an icon. But he also worked with the secret police under the name Bolek. The truth isn't always simply black and white.
Slawomir Cenckiewicz
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