Gutzon Borglum famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.
-- Gutzon Borglum
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,
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And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
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Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
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The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
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Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
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