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In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.
Paul Kagame
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My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.
Vo Nguyen Giap
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Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.
George Washington
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The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch.
Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you.
Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.
Merle Shain
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We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith
Irenaeus of Lyons
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.
Esther Perel
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Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
Joseph Goebbels
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The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
William Faulkner
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
Leon Trotsky
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Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.
Umar
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The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
Patrick Henry
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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
Zygmunt Bauman
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There is a very special place in the Australian psyche for sport. It is one of the pillars of the Australian way of life. You don't really understand what makes the Australian nation tick unless you understand the great affection Australians have for sport.
John Howard
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When you hear a word from God it resonates in the pillars of your soul.
Karen Wheaton
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I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.
Umar
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Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.
Dalai Lama
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Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
Scott Turow
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For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.
Doreen Valiente
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Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
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Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.
Michael Kimmel
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The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven.
Rudger Clawson
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The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
Frans de Waal
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Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.
Christian Dior
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In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.
Heinrich von Kleist
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Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.
Khalil Gibran
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China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.
Wang Jianlin
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In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.
George Washington
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The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
John Updike
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Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
Phillips Brooks
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There are three pillars, regardless of your work culture, whether you're in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street: how you look, how you speak, and how you behave. It's all three things, and nailing them makes you a contender.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik Ibsen
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Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Lawrence Durrell
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
John Milton
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A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.
Jason Flemyng
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The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?
Simon Mainwaring
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Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.
Grenville Kleiser
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Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.
Louis C. K.
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Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development
Jeffrey Sachs
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Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.
Max Muller
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A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
Italo Svevo
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Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.
Jasper Fforde
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Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.
Mick Jagger
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The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.
Jean-Claude Juncker
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
Dan Kildee
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Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.
Burt Shavitz
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It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
Juvenal
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The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.
William Lloyd Garrison