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«The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.»
«They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.»
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
| About:
America and Americans,
Competition,
Dreams
| Keywords:
memorial, memorials
«Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.»
«A casualty is a man blown to pieces, disintegrated, nothing left of him but a name on a war memorial»
Author: John Terraine
| Keywords:
blown, casualties, casualty, disintegrate, disintegrated, disintegrating, memorial, memorials
«It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Keywords:
association, dearly, likeness, memorial, memorials, monstrous, nearness, noblest, portraits, sanctification, The Association
«The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Civilization,
Memory
| Keywords:
Lincoln, memorial, memorials, related, related to, toga, wore
«Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Among the, leave behind, letters, memorial, memorials, significant
«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»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
affection, an event, enduring, event, library, memorials, monument, preservation, public libraries, public library, respected, revolutions, survives, The Monument, trustiest, trusty, wars
«Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life»
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
apology, blot, blunders, connected, damning, emphasis, exacted, expiation, formal, humiliations, inadequacies, inadequacy, incidental, incidental to, memorials, poisonous, pound, soaked, stamps, strew, subtlest, vocation
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