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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
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- Lyndon B. Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Lyndon B. Johnson: life dates 1908 to 1973. Wikidata Q9640, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9640 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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