A Quote by Dylan Thomas

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Dylan Thomas

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After Function Itself Look Posterity

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Dylan Thomas
Welsh - Poet
October 27, 1914 - November 9, 1953

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

William James

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

James Bryce

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

Benjamin Disraeli

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Tacitus

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

Raymond Loewy

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

Plato

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

W. Somerset Maugham

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

William Winwood Reade

Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.

Bob Torres

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Abraham Lincoln

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

Groucho Marx

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Kenneth Burke

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.