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• Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Home, Fire, Cities

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• The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Men, People

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.111, Fig

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• No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Dog, Flower

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Jacob's Room”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Technology, Government, Innovation

  "President Sebastian Pinera: I want a First World Chile by 2020" By Claire Brennan, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
  Against her beauty? May she mix
  With men and prosper! Who shall fix
  Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knowledge, Men, Her Beauty

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

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• Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

  Agatha Christie

  Sweet, Taken, Mind

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• It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Two, America

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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

  Tools, Literature, Knows

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Loss, Doubt, Pakistan

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• The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.

  George Washington

  Wisdom, 4th Of July, Government

  "The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private".

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• Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Perseverance, Character, Four

  "Mohammad Ali Jinnah : A Political Study" by M. H. Saiyid, (p. 9), 1962.

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• The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

  Marlon Brando

  Lying, Support, Stupidity

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• I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars

  T. E. Lawrence

  Stars, Men, Hands

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom dedication, l. 1 (1926)

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• The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

  Leon Trotsky

  Stupidity, United States, Vulgarity

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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

  Home, Community, Needed

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

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• A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Rain, Clouds, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive. I'm not. I'm an artist. Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)

  Joan Bauer

  Distance, Taken, Artist

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• Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

  Esther Perel

  Two, Needs, Togetherness

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

  Ronald Reagan

  Determination, Freedom, War

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, this God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is a pillar of fire and a column of smoke.

  Matt Chandler

  Stars, Fire, Dust

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• Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

  John Ralston Saul

  If There Is A God, Political, Bankers

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Lying, Moral

  1974 interview, printed in appendix to (The Oak and the Calf, 1975)

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• In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

  Paul Kagame

  Development, Today, Investment

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• And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

  Charles Dickens

  Issues, May, Stones

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.212, Courier Corporation

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• As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Strong, Fall, Long

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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