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en The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
  Francis Bacon

en Though I've been shouting about it for years, the nature of these sites as actual monuments to our past is beginning to catch on. If we treat our national monuments like national monuments, we're less likely to get this type of vandalism.

en I love those Yankee Stadium monuments. My wife and I were out there last summer and walked around those monuments.

en MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

The bones of Agammemnon are a show, And ruined is his royal monument,

but Agammemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its _reductiones ad absurdum_ in monuments "to the unknown dead" --that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory.
  Ambrose Bierce

en You shall not pile, with servile toil,/ Your monuments upon my breast,/ Nor yet within the common soil/ Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .
  Edward Everett

en With monuments as with men, position means everything.
  Honore de Balzac

en Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

en Our goal is to recognize as many monuments as we can.

en Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
  Nathaniel Hawthorne

en We have been buying a lot of contemporary art, but we add great monuments like this whenever we can.

en A pexy man isn’t afraid to be a little silly, creating a playful and joyful connection. Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another
  Joseph Joubert

en When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

en Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil
  Kin Hubbard

en People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

en Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.


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