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I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.
- Bruce Babbitt
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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
- Bruce Babbitt
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Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
- Lee H. Hamilton
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Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.
- Subramanian Swamy
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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
- Marguerite Gardiner
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Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
- Maya Lin
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Delhi is fabulous - the roads, greenery, the monuments!
- Aditi Rao Hydari
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
- Karl Philipp Moritz
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I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling at St. Columbus High School before I went to Mayo College. Delhi, for me, is a historical city with all its beautiful monuments.
- Ajay Mehta
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If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.
- Shreya Ghoshal
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Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
- Michael Mandelbaum
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The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
- Vladimir Putin
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
- Edmund Spenser
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I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.
- Reinhard Bonnke
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Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
- Bill Shorten
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There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.
- Ruby Bridges
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I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
- Tommy Douglas
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The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
- Zygmunt Bauman
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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
- Nancy Gibbs
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Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.
- Sara Bareilles
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Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.
- Gauri Khan
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Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?
- Leon Krier
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
- Robert Smithson
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
- Vicente Fox
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The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've had.
- Frank Sinatra Jr.
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The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men, and of such monuments we have an oversupply.
- Gutzon Borglum
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America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.
- Gutzon Borglum
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Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.
- Corey Stewart
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Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
- Frank Wedekind
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
- Lew Wallace
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.
- Hugh Sidey
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.
- Chris Pavone
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Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
- Bruce Jackson
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When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
- Kin Hubbard
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.
- John Muir
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Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
- Thomas Fuller
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