quotes about Division
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
-- Aaron Spelling -
Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
-- Adyashanti -
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
-- Alan Watts -
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
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I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this many times. I don't plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.
-- Ariel Sharon -
Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.
-- Aristotle -
The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the haves and the have-nots, and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right to live and the right to freedom.
-- Arun Manilal Gandhi -
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
-- Bao ?ai -
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We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation and campaigns of assassination. And in the face of ancient divisions, you stood firm to help those Iraqis who put their faith in the future.
-- Barack Obama -
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
-- Barry EichengreenSource : "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.
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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
-- Bess Streeter AldrichSource : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.82, U of Nebraska Press
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You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
-- Bess Truman -
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Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.
-- Beth MooreSource : Beth Moore (2010). “Paul: 90 Days on His Journey of Faith”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group
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...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.
-- Bob Woodward -
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.
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Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.
-- Charles BabbageSource : 1832 On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.
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The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.
-- David Dreman -
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Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce...
-- David Ricardo -
I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division,
-- Deontay WilderSource : "Deontay Wilder decisions Stiverne" by Dan Rafael, abcnews.go.com. January 18, 2015.
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Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.
-- Dick Gephardt -
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Obviously, (winning the division) is big. To be No. 1 is always important..
-- Dirk Nowitzki -
I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.
-- Eamon Dunphy -
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.
-- Ebenezer Elliott -
The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.
-- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva -
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The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.
-- Ehud OlmertSource : "Former Israeli PM looks at Iran crisis". www.cnn.com. May 5, 2012.
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There is more power in unity than division.
-- Emanuel CleaverSource : "Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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I would rather he had given me one more division
-- Erwin Rommel -
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Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
-- Fanny Kemble -
There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six
-- Fred Dinenage -
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
-- Georg SimmelSource : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.420, Simon and Schuster
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
-- George Orwell -
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That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!
-- George PickettSource : Richard F. Selcer, George E. Pickett (1995). “"Faithfully and forever your soldier": Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA”
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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
-- George SaintsburySource : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.13, tredition
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Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
-- Gerald of Wales -
I would say that I am having less sex now that I’m playing in Serie B – there is more to think about in this division.
-- Gianluigi Buffon -
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I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.
-- Gray DavisSource : "Gray Davis, conciliatory in defeat, accepts the people's verdict". www.cnn.com. October 8, 2003.
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Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.
-- Halford MackinderSource : Sir Halford John Mackinder (1962). “Democratic Ideals and Reality: With Additional Papers”
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
-- Henri Bergson -
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
-- Henri Nouwen -
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I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.
-- Henrique Capriles Radonski -
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
-- Henry Mayhew -
The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.
-- Henry Wriston -
To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
-- Homer -
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Kuwait is the origin which our roots extend in it's base. The fort that we seek for shelter and stick to after God Almighty. Kuwait is the entity that maintains our presence that's united in it's features and divisions.
-- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah -
Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
-- Janet Frame -
If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.
-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau -
The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
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When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
-- Jerry Brown -
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
-- Jesse Jackson -
When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.
-- Jesse Jackson -
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The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.
-- Jesse Lee Kercheval -
I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
-- Joe Wright -
We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
-- Johann Lamont -
Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom†to signify these ultimate particles.
-- John Dalton -
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Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?
-- Joseph Stalin -
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
-- Joseph Stalin -
A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious way; it is organic when it ignores the division and the autonomization of the particular and when, by virtue of the system of hierarchical participation, every part within its relative autonomy performs its own function and enjoys an intimate connection with the whole.
-- Julius Evola -
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As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .
-- Karl Marx -
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
-- Khaleda Zia -
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
-- Krista Tippett -
We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
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Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.
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The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.
-- Luo GuanzhongSource : "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Book by Luo Guanzhong (Chapter 1, opening lines), 14th century.
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This is one of the toughest divisions and I’m going to be champion.
-- Lyoto Machida -
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.
-- M. C. Escher -
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Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.
-- Mark DeverSource : Mark Dever (2012). “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible”, p.96, B&H Publishing Group
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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
-- Marshall McLuhanSource : Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.66, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
-- Martin Yan -
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
-- Max Beckmann -
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The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.
-- Michael Mandelbaum -
My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.
-- Michael Moore -
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
-- Michael Pollan -
It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.
-- Miyamoto Musashi -
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It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.
-- Monique WittigSource : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
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One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
-- Nan Fairbrother -
choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it.
-- Nayantara SahgalSource : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”
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Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations
-- Nelson Mandela -
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Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.
-- Nicole KraussSource : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.185, W. W. Norton & Company
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I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.
-- Oliver P. Smith -
Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.
-- Paolo Bacigalupi -
I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
-- Park Geun-hye -
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Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.
-- Patrick FitzgeraldSource : "Cheney Aide Resigns After Indictment Over CIA Leak". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2005.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
-- Patrick J. Kennedy -
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
-- Peter Ackroyd -
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
-- Peter Hain -
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Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.
-- Peter MacKay -
It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.
-- Philippe AriesSource : Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage
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The Redskins haven't won the division since 1999, and we came in and we did it in one year!
-- Robert Griffin III -
Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.
-- Robert Grosseteste -
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I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.
-- Robert Smith -
If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.
-- Rudolf Carnap -
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
-- Sam ShepardSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
-- Sebastian Junger -