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• Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

  Eric Alterman

  Wings, President, Facts

  "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

  Joyce Banda

  Husband, Stories, Levels

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• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  Iain Banks

  Fiction, Fabric, Done

  "Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers" by Iain M Banks, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

  Eric Burdon

  People, Important, Gone

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• America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

  Simon Hoggart

  Hero, Blue, Whales

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• All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.

  David Jeremiah

  Forever, Oblivion, Christ

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• The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Simple, America

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Rich, Should, Treats

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.52

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• don't talk about legacy. I have a job to do, and I'm doing it. And I'm not expecting a legacy and I'm not expecting to get pride from some legacy, I'm doing a job that I believe needs to be done. I am willing to do it for the time, and I am not looking for some kind of an accolade or whatever. I don't consider myself anything special. I work hard.

  Frank Lowy

  Jobs, Believe, Hard Work

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.

  Mark Driscoll

  Good Times

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• What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Change, Loss, Government

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• The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan.

  John Berridge

  Bible, Christian, Father

  JOHN BERRIDGE (1854). “THE CHRISTIAN WORLD UNMASKED”, p.38

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• These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Upset, Facts

  Interview with David Kupfer, November 2006.

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• One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Gun, People, Ironic

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• I dont know that the United States is Gods Country, but the church has been so strong here, and because of its influence, we hold life to be sacred and we believe that individuals have dignity. This is part of our legacy.

  Rich Mullins

  Country, Strong, Believe

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• Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.

  Hank Green

  Media, People, Attempting

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• The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had.

  Allen West

  Country, Liberty, Needs

  Source: wethekids.us

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• This president Barack Obama has done more for the LGBT community than any president in history. It's just an objective fact. And his legacy is secure in terms of the advancement of the rights of the LGBT community, from 'Don't Ask', 'Don't Tell' to his support for overturning the Defense of Marriage Act, and of course marriage equality, work on HIV and AIDS, and other things.

  Gavin Newsom

  Rights, Lgbt Community, Support

  "Sweet Vindication for Gavin Newsom, Who Staked His Career on Same-Sex Marriage". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 27, 2015.

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• Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the same time, by conscious choice of lighting and pictorial structure, suggest the aesthetic legacy of the past.

  John Pfahl

  Photography, Past, Perfect

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• This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!

  Edward Everett

  Children, Father, Blessing

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• The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

  June Jordan

  Energy, Moral, Purity

  June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon

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• In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.

  Faith Baldwin

  Miracle, Way, Belief

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• to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.

  Liv Ullmann

  Thinking, Who I Am, Choices

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• I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Believe, Play, Nfl

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