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• When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Done, Deeds

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, War, Mean

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

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• Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.

  John Vianney

  Prayer, Fire, Light

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• But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

  Dan Stevens

  Writing, Ideas, Actors

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

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• Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Space, People

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

  Jason Kidd

  Winning, Games, Play

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• The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing.

  Robert Pinsky

  Art, Air, Dancing

  Robert Pinsky (2014). “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.

  Steve Albini

  Years, Year End, Idiot

  "Volume 14 (November 2003)" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2010.

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  People, Baghdad, East

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• To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

  Regina Brett

  Life Lesson, Growing, Lessons

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• The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

  Philip Wylie

  Book, League, May

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• Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Sky, Bully

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.108

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• A man is as young as his spinal column.

  Joseph Pilates

  Men, Pilates, Young

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• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  Adam Parfrey

  Play, Names, Dumb

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• Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I, a feather on the breath of God.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Beautiful, Kings, Ivory

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• The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

  E. P. Thompson

  Truth, Political, Secret

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• This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on.
  Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing... We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

  Gore Vidal

  Wall, War, Rights

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• If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Differences, Three, Obscurity

  Oscar Wilde, Richard Butler Glaenzer (1906). “Decorative Art in America: A Lecture, Together with Letters, Reviews and Interviews. Edited, with an Introd. by Richard Butler Glaenzer”

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• The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.

  Heinrich Heine

  Thinking, Weather, Broken

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• In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Years, Newspapers, Inches

  "Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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• Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound of billions of very small feet hitting the stones in perfect time. Rincewind stepped gingerly over the marching column. The Librarian jumped it. The Luggage, of course, followed them with a noise like someone tapdancing over a bag of crisps.

  Terry Pratchett

  Feet, Perfect, Sound

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• My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lonely, Gone, Boots

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• When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Stars, Learning

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  Salman Rushdie

  New York, Writing, Years

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• Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

  William Safire

  Writing, Mean, Two

  "How to Read a Column" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2005.

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