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"All we have to do is
to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the
king himself."
-- Howard Carter
-- Howard Carter
"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
-- John Lothrop Motley
"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
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Towers of
silence."
-- Robert Xavier Murphy
-- Robert Xavier Murphy
“From the heights of
these pyramids, forty centuries look down on
us.”
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"If we did the things
we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
-- Thomas Edison
-- Thomas Edison
"Tombs are the clothes
of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich
monument is one embroidered."
-- Thomas Fuller
-- Thomas Fuller
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