Divides Quotes

• Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Common Humanity, Important, Humanity

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• I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Journey, Thinking

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• It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Motivation, Differences

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.36, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

  Dan Mangan

  People, Important, Use

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• To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• You cant please all the people all the time.

  Miranda Richardson

  People, Please, Cant

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• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Twilight

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feelings save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution, cutting us off at both ends.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Country, Memories

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.80, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strength, Fitness, Bodybuilding

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• Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

  Socrates

  Humility, Pride, Men

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• For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

  Joel Osteen

  White, People, Judging

  "The Gospel According to Joel Osteen: God Wants You to Be Happy" by Ely Brown and Edward Lovett, abcnews.go.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Night, Reality, Thinking

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, Chapter III · Strategic Attack, 6th Century BC.

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• Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

  Peter Ustinov

  Faith, Atheist, People

  "2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt". Book by James A. Haught, 1996.

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• It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc.  All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Old School, Men, Intuition

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• Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 18, 2016

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• No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Eleven Minutes: A Novel”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.

  Rene Descartes

  Hands, Pieces, Difficulty

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• I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Differences, Justice

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.10

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• A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.

  George H. W. Bush

  Mean, People, Decision

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• There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

  Robert Benchley

  Class, Two, People

  Of All Things ch. 20 (1921)

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• We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

  George Eliot

  Travel, Journey, Views

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.381

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• When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Who I Am

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  Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934

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