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• For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.

  Louis J. Halle

  Country, Doe, Purpose

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• I have been living in Germany for one year and my impression is that people here are on a quest for the truth, they have come to terms with the injustices of the past, there are memorial centers and remembrance projects. Germany is my spiritual home.

  Liao Yiwu

  Spiritual, Home, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.

  Howard Zinn

  Memorial Day, Children, Flower

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.97, Seven Stories Press

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• Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.

  Charles Villiers Stanford

  Beautiful, Flower, Roots

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• How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Regret, Causes

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1846). “Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals”, p.69

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• Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Country, Jesus, Men

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• Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

  Elijah Muhammad

  Wise, Memorial Day, Prayer

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• Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  Pliny the Younger

  Lying, Fall, Mean

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• If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

  Mona Charen

  War, World, Pearls

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• After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

  Russ Carnahan

  America, Design, Competition

  Russ Carnahan's remarks at the United States House of Representatives (October 28, 2005), as quoted in "Congressional Record, Volume 151 - Part 18: October 27, 2005 to November 7, 2005 (Pages 23969 to 25296)" by Government Printing Office (p. 24193), 2010.

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• I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

  Nathan Rabin

  Powerful, Stress, Holocaust

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• Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.

  David Mixner

  Beautiful, Country, Spring

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• I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

  Jenny Holzer

  Writing, Numbers, People

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college. He instilled in me a commitment to service, saying that it's not enough to believe in service, or support those who serve - you ought to find a way yourself to serve. When I looked at different options after college, nobody inspired me more than the 18- and 19-year-olds who serve on the front lines of our nation's military. Serving with them in the Marines as we together served our country was the greatest honor of my life to date.

  Seth Moulton

  Country, Military, Believe

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.

  Eric Idle

  Crazy, Years, Nuts

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

  William Falconer

  Giving, Woe, Tales

  William Falconer (1807). “The shipwreck, by W. Falconer, with a sketch of his life”, p.8

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• Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Government, Years, Design

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

  John Linder

  Memorial Day, Numbers, Battle

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• Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

  Mason Cooley

  Enlightenment, Monument

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• I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

  Glenn Beck

  Inspiring, Memorial Day, Memories

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• On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge "never again," but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Compassion

  Statement from the President on Yom Hashoah, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 08, 2013.

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• What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

  Bob Dole

  War, Hero, Self Worth

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• Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Determination

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• Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

  Joseph Story

  Graduation, School, Excellence

  Joseph Story (1835). “The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected”, p.73

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• I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this memorial band for the 23 I lost.

  Bernard Kerik

  Iraq, People, September 11

  "Cnn Live Event/Special" with Soledad O'brien, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2003.

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