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Tag Name "Monument" (229)

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For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
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One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
Henry David Thoreau
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I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.
Anne Sexton
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Joseph Joubert
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In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.
Dalai Lama
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We`re doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.
Andy Ihnatko
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After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
Cato the Elder
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
William James
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(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.
Margaret Thatcher
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge.
Montgomery Schuyler
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Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
Don Cheadle
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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
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Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.
Lajos Kossuth
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