Posterity
noun
All the people who will live in the future after we are dead.
We must think about the welfare of our posterity.
Often appears as...
- do for posterity
- leave for posterity
noun
All of a person's descendants.
The wealth of the family was passed down to their posterity.
Often appears as...
- benefit of posterity
- wealth of posterity
noun
All the people who will live in the future after we are dead.
We must think about the welfare of our posterity.
Often appears as...
- do for posterity
- leave for posterity
noun
All of a person's descendants.
The wealth of the family was passed down to their posterity.
Often appears as...
- benefit of posterity
- wealth of posterity
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Lifetimes
Refers to people in the distant future, beyond anyone currently alive.
This time capsule will tell posterity about our era.
Pro Tip 2/3Responsibility Implication
Often used to express a sense of duty to future generations.
We are conserving these resources for posterity.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Used when considering the judgment or view of future generations.
The president's decisions will be judged by posterity.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Lifetimes
Refers to people in the distant future, beyond anyone currently alive.
This time capsule will tell posterity about our era.
Pro Tip 2/3Responsibility Implication
Often used to express a sense of duty to future generations.
We are conserving these resources for posterity.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Used when considering the judgment or view of future generations.
The president's decisions will be judged by posterity.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Lifetimes
Refers to people in the distant future, beyond anyone currently alive.
This time capsule will tell posterity about our era.
Pro Tip 2/3Responsibility Implication
Often used to express a sense of duty to future generations.
We are conserving these resources for posterity.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Used when considering the judgment or view of future generations.
The president's decisions will be judged by posterity.
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Learning from past...
his own hand was numb and shaking because he had shaken a thousand hands that morning at a New Year's reception so he put the pen down he said if ever my soul were in an act it is in this act but if I sign with a shaking hand posterity will say he hesitated so he waited until he could take up the pen and sign with a bold and clear hand but
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Paola Antonelli: Why I...
They also preserve artifacts for posterity. In absence of the code, because, you know, video game companies are not very forthcoming in some cases, in absence of that, we acquire the relationship with the company. We're going to stay with them forever. They're not going to get rid of us. And one day, we'll get that code.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin:...
because he had shaken a thousand hands that morning at a New Year's reception. So he put the pen down. He said, "If ever my soul were in an act, it is in this act. But if I sign with a shaking hand, posterity will say, 'He hesitated.'" So he waited until he could take up the pen and sign with a bold and clear hand.
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How we can store digital...
to A's, T's, C's and G's, and then we send this to a synthesis company. So we write it, we can store it, and when we want to recover our data, we just sequence it. Now, the fun part of all of this is deciding what files to include. We're serious scientists, so we had to include a manuscript for good posterity.
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A fascinating time...
And as any decent political operative knows, flipping the ambivalent middle can change the game. Another reason I know we're vulnerable is men -- I'm sorry, but men, you are twice as likely than women to believe that getting into an autonomous car is a good idea, that uploading your brain for posterity is fun,
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Saving Manatees: What It...
are we're all a part of the clearwater marine aquarium um which is famously known for the dolphin winter posterity but we also do work in other parts of the world including belize um in cuba and other parts of the world in belize our our team is a member of three a group of three of us
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The evolution of the...
they they could have chosen to hire a proofreader I used to be one it took me four seconds to mark this up and I would have given the mates rates for the job and I think that would have been money well spent because this is a written medium built for posterity
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What if gentrification...
And with their support, and that of the utility company, we built a listening booth on our site. And we invited the residents to come and have their stories recorded for posterity. After a few days of recording, we held a listening party
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Starting the Search PIPE...
the carrot lesson we might be able to raise the status of this area of this you very unique habitat so that it it can be protected for posterity the canyon may be remote today but could be threatened tomorrow once this great
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Let's make history…by...
where everything recorded by StoryCorps is preserved for posterity. This is where, if you record your parents, your grandparents, your neighbors, your children,
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Learning from past...
his own hand was numb and shaking because he had shaken a thousand hands that morning at a New Year's reception so he put the pen down he said if ever my soul were in an act it is in this act but if I sign with a shaking hand posterity will say he hesitated so he waited until he could take up the pen and sign with a bold and clear hand but
Video examples
Paola Antonelli: Why I...
They also preserve artifacts for posterity. In absence of the code, because, you know, video game companies are not very forthcoming in some cases, in absence of that, we acquire the relationship with the company. We're going to stay with them forever. They're not going to get rid of us. And one day, we'll get that code.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin:...
because he had shaken a thousand hands that morning at a New Year's reception. So he put the pen down. He said, "If ever my soul were in an act, it is in this act. But if I sign with a shaking hand, posterity will say, 'He hesitated.'" So he waited until he could take up the pen and sign with a bold and clear hand.
Video examples
How we can store digital...
to A's, T's, C's and G's, and then we send this to a synthesis company. So we write it, we can store it, and when we want to recover our data, we just sequence it. Now, the fun part of all of this is deciding what files to include. We're serious scientists, so we had to include a manuscript for good posterity.
Video examples
A fascinating time...
And as any decent political operative knows, flipping the ambivalent middle can change the game. Another reason I know we're vulnerable is men -- I'm sorry, but men, you are twice as likely than women to believe that getting into an autonomous car is a good idea, that uploading your brain for posterity is fun,
Video examples
Saving Manatees: What It...
are we're all a part of the clearwater marine aquarium um which is famously known for the dolphin winter posterity but we also do work in other parts of the world including belize um in cuba and other parts of the world in belize our our team is a member of three a group of three of us
Video examples
The evolution of the...
they they could have chosen to hire a proofreader I used to be one it took me four seconds to mark this up and I would have given the mates rates for the job and I think that would have been money well spent because this is a written medium built for posterity
Video examples
What if gentrification...
And with their support, and that of the utility company, we built a listening booth on our site. And we invited the residents to come and have their stories recorded for posterity. After a few days of recording, we held a listening party
Video examples
Starting the Search PIPE...
the carrot lesson we might be able to raise the status of this area of this you very unique habitat so that it it can be protected for posterity the canyon may be remote today but could be threatened tomorrow once this great
Video examples
Let's make history…by...
where everything recorded by StoryCorps is preserved for posterity. This is where, if you record your parents, your grandparents, your neighbors, your children,
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Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.
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William Kingdon Clifford
English Mathematician
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Jean Paul
German Author
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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Robert Trout
American Journalist
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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Alice James
American Writer
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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Sam Houston
American Politician
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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Walter Savage Landor
English Poet
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Quote examples
Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.
Quote examples
William Kingdon Clifford
English Mathematician
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
Quote examples
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Quote examples
Jean Paul
German Author
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Quote examples
Robert Trout
American Journalist
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Quote examples
Alice James
American Writer
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Quote examples
Sam Houston
American Politician
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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Walter Savage Landor
English Poet
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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