 It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century. Author: Daniel Libeskind
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| There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private. Author: Daniel Libeskind
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| Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site. Author: Daniel Libeskind
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| And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria. Author: David Dimbleby
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| In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War. Author: Dennis Cardoza
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| 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. Author: Doc Hastings
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| Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. Author: E. Joseph Cossman
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| Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected. Author: Edgar Lee Masters
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| The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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| Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. Author: Harold MacMillan
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| Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it. Author: Jack Bruce
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| Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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. Author: John Linder
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| As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars. Author: John M. McHugh
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| My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use. Author: Kenneth Joseph Arrow
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| The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it. Author: Lawrence Halprin
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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. Author: Malcolm Fraser
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| Every memorial in its time has a different goal. Author: Maya Lin
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| I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. Author: Maya Lin
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| I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. Author: Maya Lin
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| When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. Author: Maya Lin
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| It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades. Author: Paddy Chayefsky
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| For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. Author: Pericles
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| Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left. Author: Robert Byrne
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| Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life. Author: Robin Hayes
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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. Author: Russ Carnahan
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| I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting. Author: Samuel Wilson
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| I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. Author: Sarah Vowell
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| Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ. Author: Stephen Bayne
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| Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us. Author: William Tyndale
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| The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names. Author: William Westmoreland
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| When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. Author: William Westmoreland
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