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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
Past
John Adams

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The post of honor is a private station.
Honor
Joseph Addison

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

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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Prayer
Charles Baudelaire

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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Posterity
Jorge Luis Borges

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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Posterity
Heywood Broun

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Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
Public Office
Jean De La Bruyere

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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
Greatness
Edmund Burke

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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
History and Historians
Edmund Burke

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A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
Consciousness
Albert Camus

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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Modern and Modernism
Angela Carter

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Arts and Artists
Jean Cocteau

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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Youth
Benjamin Disraeli

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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
Modern and Modernism
Terry Eagleton

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Goals
Arnold H. Glasgow

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Fame
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Modern and Modernism
Robert Hewison

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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Perseverance
Napoleon Hill

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Politics makes strange postmasters.
Politicians and Politics
Kin Hubbard

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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.
Purpose
L. Ron Hubbard

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It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Enemies
Sally Kempton

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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Achievement
Charles F. Kettering

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
Age and Aging
Louis Kronenberger

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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Writers and Writing
Walter Savage Landor

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He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
Statistics
Andrew Lang

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun