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• I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

  Haile Gerima

  White, People, Black

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• What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Money, Today, Credit

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• A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fall, Land, Noise

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• You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.'

  Luis Palau

  God, October, Never Forget

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• She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Yellow

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Hero, Heart

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• No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Cynic, Raised

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.333, Bantam

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• Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.

  Rick Riordan

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Tired, Past

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 12, 2014

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• I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

  Franz Kafka

  Tired, Sleep, Effort

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• Relationships are monuments build on lies

  Dan Savage

  Lying

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• nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

  Carol Shields

  Light, Movement, Said

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.13, Penguin

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• The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.

  Alistair Begg

  Differences, Issues, Way

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• The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Peace, Successful, Names

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.4, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Inspiration, Two

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• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Hate, Passion, Sunset

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Real, Passion

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christianity, Graves, Admiring

  1935 Religion and Literature.

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• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

  Honore de Balzac

  Badass, Bad Ass, Events

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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• But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

  Thomas Dunn English

  Country, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”

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• The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up by devoting ourselves to the study of the actual state of the living world, and to those monuments of the past in which the relics of the animate creation of former ages are best preserved and least mutilated by the hand of time.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Past, Issues

  Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation”, p.470

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• I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Thinking, Years

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• The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Mean, People

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• Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and, for the relentless searcher, in grimly inaccessible regions of The Bronx.

  James A. Baldwin

  New York, Wall, Mistake

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