- Fabulous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monuments Quotes
On what we build to remember.
These quotes look at monuments from several angles: one reflects soberly on the historical risk of the Holocaust being reduced to a distant memorial rather than remembered fully, while others describe Archaeological sites or call mountains nature's own monuments.
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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?
- Nov 07, 2020
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020