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• Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

  Joseph Heller

  Determination, Accomplishment, Rambling

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory. . .

  Zachary Taylor

  Memories, Long, Presidential

  John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Queens, Two, Common Purpose

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• If so men's memories not a monument be,
  None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone,
  Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown.
  Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

  John Vance Cheney

  Memories, Lying, Heart

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• Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Brave, Deeds

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• The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Truth, Men, Peculiar

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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• London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.

  Paul Verlaine

  Law, Ducks, Drunk

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• I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.

  Michael Chabon

  Character, Together, Four

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Wonder Boys”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Men, America

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• People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard . . . . You are talking about a personal asset, a friend, a monument, not about board feet of lumber.

  Roger Swain

  Talking, Feet, People

  Roger B. Swain (1983). “Field days: journal of an itinerant biologist”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.

  John Paul Stevens

  Religious, Squares, Atheism

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• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Money, New York, Artist

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• I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Notebook

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 15, 2013

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• What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?

  Washington Irving

  Hands, Tree, Brain

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• History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

  Samuel Johnson

  Personal Knowledge, Forever, Records

  Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.16

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• a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Looks, Young

  Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, A. C. Ward (1965). “Northanger abbey”

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• Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Air, House, Honor

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• A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.

  James Madison

  Eye, Names, Heaven

  James Madison (1962). “Papers”

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• Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Knowledge, Mean, Civilization

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Chapter One: "The Fear of Poetry", 1949.

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• Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things the job, the house, the this, the that do not really fill the place inside.

  Robertson Davies

  Jobs, House, Kind

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.231, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Ice, Shadow, Age

  Letter to James F. Morton (16 May 1926), in "Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 192), 2000.

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• Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.

  Mathew Tobriner

  Men, Yesterday, Self

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• If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

  Jeff Shaara

  Gettysburg, Changed, Ifs

  "Author Shaara's Pilgrimage To Civil War Sites". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 24, 2011.

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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

  Names, Eight, Vermont

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• Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

  Tom Robbins

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Boomers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.24, Bantam

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