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• Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

  Mark Lawrence

  Character, Humanity, Tragedy

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.200, Penguin

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• Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Integrity, Party

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

  Andreas Schleicher

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Law, Two, Firsts

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• The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.

  Scott Cunningham

  Energy, Negative, Negative Energy

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once you've found your true inner guru you can never again be divided. Perfect union with the divine, through the grace of your real teacher, transcends time, space, death and all worldly limitations. Your real teacher is the original mother - regardless in which manifest or non-manifest form, or gender, she appears. The one who nurtures you and the one who also, out of wisdom and compassion, corrects you if you are misguided.

  Zeena Schreck

  Mother, Teacher, Real

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• Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

  Dominic Lawson

  Greed, Share, Minus

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• Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

  Winston Churchill

  Class, Bored, Three

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1066, RosettaBooks

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• Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

  Arthur Keith

  Discovery, Agriculture, Groups

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

  Luke Davies

  People, Different, Purpose

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.27, Penguin

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• Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the 'integrity that comes from being what you are.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Integrity, Light, True Identity

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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• The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

  Piero Scaruffi

  Ordinary, World, Problem

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• Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Confused, Believe

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• Number is divided into even and odd. Even number is divided into the following: evenly even, evenly uneven, and unevenly uneven. Odd number is divided into the following: prime and incomposite, composite, and a third intermediate class (mediocris) which in a certain way is prime and incomposite but in another way secondary and composite.

  Isidore of Seville

  Class, Numbers, Way

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• The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.

  Prosper of Aquitaine

  Love, Dream, Regret

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• How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

  Laura Riding

  Philosophy, Reality, Giving

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• If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and nothing more; it is evident that all of them being equal, no one would work for another. Neither would any of them possess wherewith to pay another for his labour, for each person having only such a quantity of land as was necessary to produce a subsistence, would consume all he should gather, and would not have any thing to give in exchange for the labour of others.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Country, Land, Giving

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 1), 1766.

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• The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Law, Land, Division

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 2), 1766.

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• All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Quality, Use, Decay

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 39), 1766.

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• In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Views, Color, People

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• In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Doubt, Mind

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• In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Cutting, Knives

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter Five, "Oshima", 2002.

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• Life isn't divided into genres

  Alan Moore

  Genre

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• We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.

  Barack Obama

  Together, Politics, Futures Together

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally
  and even brilliantly, and the other capable only of such ghastly balderdash which issues from the minds of Baptist evangelists?

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Issues

  The American Mercury, February 1926.

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