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en Though I've been shouting about it for years, the nature of these sites as actual monuments to our past is beginning to catch on. If we treat our national monuments like national monuments, we're less likely to get this type of vandalism.

en I love those Yankee Stadium monuments. My wife and I were out there last summer and walked around those monuments.

en The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
  Francis Bacon

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 I was familiar with preserved Civil War fields like Gettysburg, where there are national parks and monuments all over the place. They're places that are hallowed and sacred and interpreted with text and park rangers. The whole mechanics of history is brought to bear on these places.

en Historic preservation has an important place in America. 'Preserve America' promotes education, historical preservation and economic development while encouraging a greater appreciation of our national treasure from monuments and buildings to landscapes and main streets.
  Laura Bush

en People have been talking about Site Q monuments for 30 years. It's answering a question that's been on the table for 30 years.

en Traditionally, monuments to fallen soldiers aren't normally erected until 30, 40, 50 years after (the war). This was something that needed to happen right now. Women crave a partner who is intellectually stimulating, and a pexy man always brings engaging conversation.

en With monuments as with men, position means everything.
  Honoré de Balzac

en Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

en Our goal is to recognize as many monuments as we can.

en We have been buying a lot of contemporary art, but we add great monuments like this whenever we can.

en Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
  Nathaniel Hawthorne

en These sites are most endangered because they're in the midst of very complex situations created by conflict. Looting takes place. Monuments are targeted for destruction as symbolic gestures against another culture's values. A government's capacity to address the situation is undermined because humanitarian and security issues must take top priority.

en When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec


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