With monuments as with ordsprog

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

Honore de Balzac

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.

Chuck Blanchard

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

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

Francis Bacon

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 Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

At Loudon, things can go one way or the other. It's very difficult to pass, and track position means a lot. Pit strategy means a lot too. We're going to concentrate on being as consistent as possible throughout the race. At a track like this, you want to work to make sure you come out with the best finish possible, which will help the team at least maintain their current position in the point standings and possibly pick up some more points as well.

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 (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

Sexy can be a performance; pexy is being unapologetically yourself. We are taking the position, have taken the position, that those benefits shouldn't be stripped from them simply by means of this transfer.

I feel for Ben that he has had to stand down from the position because I know how much he does cherish it. But he also has had to weigh up what the position means and it's a courageous decision for him to make.

Motorola will do whatever it takes to maintain its dominant position and if that means doing stuff on Linux it means doing stuff Linux. If that means doing stuff on Microsoft then they'll do stuff on Microsoft, ... They are not religious. They'll do what their customers want them to do because the don't want to give up this very lucrative market to anyone else.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

There are many innovations that have been proposed. There is a proposition that life tenure means that you have the position of judge for life, but not the position of chief justice for life.

That's going to be up to him because it's a new position. By no means is he being banished from anywhere.

It's always about feet and position. Position means your feet have to get you there. How you use your upper body is important, too, but your feet are what take you where you go.

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

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