Divides Quotes - Page 35

• I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.

  T.I.

  Thinking, Needs, Reason

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• I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Perspective, Looks

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

  Marco Rubio

  Conquer, Divide And Conquer, Hope And Change

  Speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, FLorida, www.npr.org. August 30, 2012.

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• Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day—when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Rainy Day, Giving, Remember

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• Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

  Bob Seger

  Philosophy, Soul, Mountain

  Song: Roll Me Away, Album: The Distance

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• Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Unity, Guides

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• Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.

  Thomas Szasz

  People, Understanding, Roles

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

  Alexander Pope

  Wind, Sea, World

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.139, Delphi Classics

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• Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Worry, Digital

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• The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Heart, Design, Attention

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1850). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy”, p.15

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• I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps it can take to address the digital divide as it affects local children, and provide a range of opportunities for ICT suppliers, government agencies, charities and other organisations to make a contribution.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Children, School, Opportunity

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• The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

  Andy Stern

  Cio, Unions, Afl

  "Labor leader calls for reform / Reorganization in order, says chief of fast-growing union" by George Raine, www.sfgate.com. June 22, 2004.

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• Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Love, Evil, Judging

  Gregory A. Boyd (2004). “Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God”, p.17, Baker Books

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• The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

  Paul Scherrer

  Inspirational, Earth, Way

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• Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Waiting, Next

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• Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

  David Icke

  People, Different, Today

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

  Ehud Olmert

  Numbers, Borders, Jerusalem

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• It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

  Paul Ryan

  Determination, Believe, Self

  "Conservative 'Young Guns' Offer Views on America's Future". A Roundtable Discussion, www.today.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Law, Long

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• Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  May, Praying, Clergy

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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• When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Believe

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• The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Past, America

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

  Donald Rumsfeld

  World, Rivals, Resentment

  Donald Rumsfeld (2004). “The World According to Rummy”, Welcome Rain Publishers

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• Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, People, Together

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• The United States of America is a flawed society. As it comprises human beings, it must be flawed. But in terms of the goodness achieved inside its borders and spread elsewhere in the world, it has been the finest country that ever existed. If you were to measure the moral gulf between America and those who despise it, the divide would have to be calculated in light-years.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Light, Years

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