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Letter "M" » monuments
«The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.»
Author: Clarence Day
(Biographer, Essayist, Humorist, Writer)
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again and again, builds, die out, Hearts of, last century, monuments, races, remarkable, volumes
«There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments»
Author: Joseph Anderson
| About:
History,
Nations
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customs, embodied, embodies, institutions, In books, monuments, recorded, strengthens
«The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history»
Author: Lew Wallace
(Soldier, Writer)
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after death, inscriptions, monuments, nothingness, protests
«Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn, solemn as an ass. All great monuments are built over solemn asses.»
«Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.»
«Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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and the like, deluge, deluges, evidences, fragmented, fragments, monuments, passages, Proverbs, records, recover, somewhat, The Deluge, the like, Traditions
«Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil»
«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»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Church,
Religion,
Superstition
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befog, churches, clergy, encouraged, monuments, processions, so-called, stupefaction, stupefied, stupefies, stupefy, stupefying, The Masses, The So
«Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
architectural, assertive, bookstore, bookstores, bronze, bronzed, closets, concert, concerts, concert hall, dedicated, halls, imprisons, in concert, In Living Color, in sight, Libraries, loot, looting, monuments, shameless, Sight and Sound, sol, sterile, world record
«Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.»
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