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  • Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

  • 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 (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”
  • Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.

    "Q&A: 'The Conservative Heart'" by Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.
  • A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

    Home   People   Ships  
    "Lea Michele Opens Up About Life After Cory" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. November 30, 2013.
  • I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.

    Play   Guy   Want  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.

    "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview With Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
  • My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

  • Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.

  • [T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.

    Flower   Men   Climbing  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2183, Library of Alexandria
  • Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

  • We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed today: civic society development, education and economic development.

    Source: www.theguardian.com
  • In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

    Dark   Men   Fire  
    Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.302
  • [Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He`s part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room for basically every important negotiation, every standoff, every big development, particularly between the United States and Russia for decades.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.

    Mom   Dog   Food  
    "Hot Dog Road Trip: A Patriotic Party Plan", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2009.
  • Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

    Country   Mean   Rights  
  • Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

    Sheep   Tree   Lightning  
  • It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.

    Stars   Character   Men  
    Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
  • The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

    John Ruskin (1834). “Modern Painters”, p.324
  • Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

    "Chips from a German Workshop, Volume I: Essays on the Science of Religion". Book by Max Müller, p. 45, 1867.
  • 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.

    Stars   Fire   Dust  
  • 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.

    "The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private".
  • We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

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

  • As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

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

  • Im not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

  • Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

    Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
  • Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

    America   People   Islam  
  • Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.

  • It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

    Believe   Mean   Knowing  
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