Divides Quotes - Page 15

• If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Peace, Taken, Thinking

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• Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

  Sargent Shriver

  Peace, Powerful, Simple

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• So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Weakness, Sides, Remember

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• Where the eye divides, the ear connects.

  John Luther Adams

  Eye, Ears

  John Luther Adams (2004). “Winter Music: Composing the North”, p.164, Wesleyan University Press

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• Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

  Todd Gitlin

  Strong, America, May

  "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.

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• In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Men, Space

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.40, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing
  That is more than your own.
  Let it brush your cheeks
  As it divides and rejoins behind you.
  
  The trees you planted in childhood have grown
  Too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
  Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Air, Breathing, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Oneness, Christ

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Joy, Sorrow

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2014

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• The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Force

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

  Jackson Browne

  Two, People, Mind Your Own Business

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• Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

  Dar Williams

  Time, Kindness, Echoes

  Song: Echoes, Album: My Better Self, 2005

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• Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

  Ajay Devgan

  Broken Heart, Promise, Today

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• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  Hamid Karzai

  Talking, America, United States

  "Interview with Representative Dana Rohrabacher". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Enemy, World, Politics

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.167, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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• The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.

  T. H. White

  Destiny, Men

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin

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• They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

  George Weah

  Education, People, President

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• The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Inspirational, Heart, Cutting

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• Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Divorce, Two, Ships

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 504-05, A Lament, line 10, 1922.

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• It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.

  Louis E. Boone

  Wisdom, Brother, Land

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• Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water.

  Elif Safak

  Identity Politics, Water, Fiction

  "The politics of fiction". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.

  Mary Pipher

  Beautiful, Team, People

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• A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Three, Used

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.119, Vintage

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