“ I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ We truly convinced that the respect and protection of human rights and freedoms are the main pillars of a pluralistic democratic society. ”
- Fatos Nano- Copy
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“ Men who for truth and honor's sake Stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly… They build a nation's pillars deep And lift them to the sky. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. ”
- Abbie Hoffman- Copy
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“ I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. ”
- Muriel Spark- Copy
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“ The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! ”
- Joni Mitchell- Copy
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“ Piling up knowledge is as bad as piling up money. You have to begin sometime to kick around what you know. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
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“ In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ”
- Pliny the Elder- Copy
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“ Mr. Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ I trust, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, that 2005 will provide new facts and will add new even stronger evidence of Bulgaria's strategic partnership with its European friends and the US. I feel sure this is going to be a year of strengthening the trans-Atlantic link, which is the pillar of peace and stability in the world. ”
- Georgi Purvanov- Copy
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“ There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perfection, but as the sustained upleaping of a Fountain, the pillar of a Glorious Flame… ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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“ CHRIS: The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL: Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt… ”
- Jeffrey Vlaming- Copy
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“ A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eyeCould reach, with here and there a sail just skippingIn sight, then lost amidst the forestryOf masts; a wilderness of steeples peepingOn tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crownOn a fool's head — and there is London Town. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one. This way of thinking - this self-certainty - is based on not being educated. ”
- Shirin Ebadi- Copy
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“ My father was kind of a local pillar of the community, a high-school teacher and football coach. He was always very politically knowledgeable because he was a social studies teacher. But in terms of his activism, it was more social and charitable in nature, rather than political. ”
- William Baldwin- Copy
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