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• There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

  Cat Stevens

  Wise, Teaching, Men

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• But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here.

  Trish Stratus

  Athlete, Winning, Proud

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• The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Winning, Play

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• Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Agriculture, Company

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• The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Love, Keys, Two

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• Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

  Georg Simmel

  Cities, Division Of Labor, Firsts

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Competition, Together

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago 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

  Wedding, Church, Want

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• God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

  Samuel Butler

  Division Of Labor, Effort, Devil

  "The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition".

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• I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

  Star Jones

  Senior, Brooklyn, Assistants

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• But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

  Herbert Read

  Mean, Independent, Civilization

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

  Judith Martin

  Country, Believe, Love Life

  "Miss Manners Rescues Civilization". Book by Judith Martin, 1998.

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• Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Real, Team, People

  "Emanuel and Axelrod - on the record" by Jim Vandehei, John F.Harris and Mike Allen, www.politico.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

  Bob Schaffer

  Loyalty, Military, Growing

  "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

  Hillary Clinton

  Realist, Idealist, Understood

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• Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Division Of Labor, Sloth, Justification

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.79, 1909.

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• No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Numbers, Government, Long

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.65

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• When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Justice, Diversity

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949.

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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 Saintsbury

  Romance, Mind, Care

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.13, tredition

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• We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

  Raul Grijalva

  Country, Creating, Issues

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• Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

  Lewis Carroll

  Math, Knives, Answers

  Lewis Carroll (1875). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.189

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• The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

  Leslie Stephen

  Faith, Religion, Atheism

  Leslie Stephen (1873). “Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking”, p.52

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• I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

  Cat Stevens

  Media, Issues, Islam

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• Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Pain, Our World, Idols

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.26, CUA Press

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• And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Class, Black

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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