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  Una biblioteca pública es el más perdurable de los monumentos conmemorativos, el más fiable para la preservación de un acontecimiento, un nombre o un afecto; porque ella, y sólo ella, es respetada por las guerras y las revoluciones, y las sobrevive.

  Mark Twain

  Guerra, Nombres, Memorial

  Mark Twain Paul Fatout (1997). "Mark Twain Speaks for Himself", p.146, Purdue University Press

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• La tierra no tiene dolor que el cielo no pueda curar.

  Thomas Moore

  Simpatía, Muerte, Espiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). "Obras poéticas", p.304

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• I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

  Paul Harvey

  Encouragement, Optimism, Pessimist

  "Breatharians" by Callan Wink, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2012.

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• Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Hurt, Survival, Ifs

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• Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Inspirational, Character, Water

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• Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Pyramids, Deeds, Stones

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• Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Utilice

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• In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Liars, Sleep, Dust

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

  Robert Lowell

  Lagos, Mar, Pesca

  "For the Union Dead" l. 29 (1964)

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• Sólo merecen un monumento quienes no lo necesitan.

  William Hazlitt

  Needs, Deserve

  William Hazlitt (1837). "Características: a la manera de las Máximas de Rochefoucault [por W. Hazlitt]", p.139

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• If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

  Agesilaus II

  Memories, Remembrance, Legacy

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• Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

  Judith Thurman

  Art, Family Life

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• Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kindness, Heart, Names

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• El desprecio de los monumentos y de la sabiduría del pasado puede considerarse con justicia una de las locuras reinantes en nuestros días, a la que han contribuido por igual el orgullo y la ociosidad.

  Samuel Johnson

  Orgullo, Pasado, Mayo

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). "Las obras de Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Viaje a las Hébridas. Cuentos de la imaginación. Oraciones y sermones. Index", p.356

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• Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Names, Passing Away

  Washington Irving (2006). "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book" (La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow y otras historias del libro de bocetos), p. 144, Penguin.

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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

  Democracy, Needs, Deeds

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• But monument themselves memorials need.

  George Crabbe

  Memorial, Needs

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38

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• There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Memories, Men, Ideas

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• After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

  Catón el Viejo

  Vida, Ingenioso, Inteligente

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• Con los monumentos, como con los hombres, la posición lo es todo.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Men, Position

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• No me importa ser un símbolo, pero no quiero convertirme en un monumento. Hay monumentos por todos los edificios del Parlamento y he visto lo que les hacen las palomas.

  Tommy Douglas

  Mind, Want, Pigeons

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Buchenwald, Dachau

  "The Twilight Zone (Deaths-Head Revisited)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. November 10, 1961.

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• La paz tiene sus victorias, no menos que la guerra, pero no tiene tantos monumentos que inaugurar.

  Kin Hubbard

  Paz, Guerra, Ubuntu

  Kin Hubbard David S. Hawes (1995). "Lo mejor de Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings", p.139, Indiana University Press

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• Las montañas son monumentos de la tierra que no se descomponen.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Naturaleza, Escalada, Montaña

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). "Cuentos de las Montañas Blancas", p.65, Electric Book Company

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• One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Moon, Would Be

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.92

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