- Determining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engraved Quotes
What gets carved in, stays.
Engraved quotes here treat the word almost as a synonym for permanence — cosmic conditions engraved into atomic weights, 9/11 heroes' names engraved in a grateful nation's heart, and Cleopatra's likeness engraved, imperfectly, onto ancient coins.
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- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and you ask for a coin to be engraved with your likeness on it, you are probably trying to project a certain air of authority.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew my boyfriend was going to ask me to marry him. And I was sure the ring was going to be exceptional, and I bought him a Rolex Explorer. And I engraved 'yes' on it. And when he proposed, I gave him the watch.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.
- Burial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020