Joseph Joubert
Essayist, Moralist
"Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another."
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Memorial
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Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"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."
Samuel Wilson
Artist
"I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
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"Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well."
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"Love for one's country is part of faith."
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"The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it."
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"Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear."
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"I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best."
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"The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them."
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"Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"
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"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them."
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"The ones that love us never really leave us."
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"Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it."
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"Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory."
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"It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built."
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"He hath awakened from the dream of life."
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"The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee."
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"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."
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"When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived."
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"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives."
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"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."
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"I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere."
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