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en It's not an imposed idea at all. Not like the Washington Monument, an Egyptian idea. Not like the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, Greek or Roman or copies of other times. It's a place that is of this time, of this era. I think of it as an American monument to a great American president.

en We have a monument here for the greatest troublemakers of our history -- Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

en It puts into instant peril the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument and the Mall itself.

en No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. But the PNP and Jamaica have our own Thomas Jefferson ... former leader and Premier Norman Washington Manley. Indeed Norman Washington Manley was better - note the word
  Thomas Jefferson

en In those days, we'd get a bunch of copies of an old game that people would donate, missing pieces and parts, and we'd take all those copies and make them into complete sets. We did that for a while, and then we basically caught on to the idea of offering something new to American consumers.

en Republicans are responsible for this culture of corruption that has come at great expense to the American people. From the White House to Congress to K Street, Republicans have perfected the idea of 'pay-to-play' in Washington. Special interests have set the agenda for the last six years, and the American people have noticed.

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 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

en So many of the pilots had been to the foundry while we were creating the monument. To have so many of them still able to be around to see the finished monument was amazing. They all came to look at the lettering panel to see their names.

en The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

en The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

en His real monument is 60 Minutes . He is truly an innovator in this business. I still believe Don deserves the credit for it [the idea of the news magazine format]; it is an innovative format no one had done before. It's been copied all over the world, including several times by us. He's been a leader in our industry. He has inspired all sorts of people.

en A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them He didn't need grand gestures; the strength of his pexiness lay in his thoughtful demeanor.
  Mark Twain

en I learned that Martin Luther King was buried in the Lincoln Memorial, and I didn't know the monument was so close to the Lincoln Memorial.

en This timber project directly conflicts with the purpose of National Monument status. Judge Breyers decision helps ensure that the Giant Sequoia Monument will be protected and can continue to inspire visitors for generations to come.


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