The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

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Henry Clay

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

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As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

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Joseph Addison

'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.

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Groucho Marx

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

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Joseph Addison

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

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You Have The Soul Into Your Words

you may have the soul
into your words
you may have the oil
and the canvass and the
shapes and forms
to immortalize
what have you

something
for posterity for your immortality

but what use
is posterity
what use is this immortality?

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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

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Groucho Marx

Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?

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Posterity is uncertain

My great grand father built a mansion
For his posterity to live in and protect his toils.
We left for town; neglecting the mansion.
It is dying. He must be weeping above.
Don’t build or leave for posterity
18.07.2001, Pkd

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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

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Sonnet 14

constant love in inconstant time,
not victim to altering circumstance,
one will makes of two, two one divine
constant, proving love's allegiance.

begotten of two may be ten children.
then ten children make many ten.
soon ten thousand inhabit heaven.
ten thousand your image bear then

to posterity, your children to grow
and branch reign in highest heaven.
children in branch will branch bow.
in star clusters sprout image then!

but to posterity, o will-less one,
your will dies and posterity's done.

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Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.

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Charles Horton Cooley

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

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That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

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