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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• 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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• 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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• You cant please all the people all the time.

  Miranda Richardson

  People, Please, Cant

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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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• 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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• 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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• We may divide characters into flat and round.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Literature, May

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.103, RosettaBooks

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• Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Responsibility, Management, Responsible

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• I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Maryland, Columbia, My Time

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14, 2010.

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• Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

  John Dryden

  Literature, Madness, Wit

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 150

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• We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hater, Religious, America

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• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

  Luis Barragan

  Gardening, Landscape, Architecture

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• For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.

  Christopher Nolan

  Taken, Mean, Bridges

  "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

  Hermann Bondi

  Science, Religion, Human Nature

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Reflection, Remembrance

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Man In Four Epistles: Epistle 1”

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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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