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The Monument

«Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.»
«After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.»
Author: Cato The Elder | Keywords: monument, The Monument
«Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.»
«Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.»
«We're not here to leave a mark, bro. Monuments, legacies, marks - that's where we always go wrong. We're here to revel in the world, to soak in the awesomeness of it, to enjoy the ride. The world's maximum perfect as it is, beauty from horizon to horizon. Any mark any of us tries to leave - hell, it's only graffitti. Any mark anyone leaves is no better than vandalism.»
«Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.»
«Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved»
«Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil»
«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»
«Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.»