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• A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, People, Kind

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

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• Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

  Dennis Prager

  Class, Evil, Poverty

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• I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.

  Allen West

  Country, Tired, Envy

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• As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Reality, Creative, Lines

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• I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, Book, Writing

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• She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. She brought her forefinger closer to her face and stared at it, urging it to move. It remained still because she was pretending... . And when she did crook it finally, the action seemed to start in the finger itself, not in some part of her mind.

  Ian Mcewan

  Moving, Waves Breaking, Secret

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• We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.

  Hu Jintao

  Long, Plot, Fields

  "China’s President Lashes Out at Western Culture" by Edward Wong, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 2012.

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• There is no longer a clear, bright line dividing America's domestic concerns and America's foreign policy concerns...If we want America to stay on the right track, if we want other people to be on that track and have the chance to enjoy peace and prosperity, we have no choice but to try to lead the train.

  William J. Clinton

  America, People, Track

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• Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Sea, Tyrants

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• The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Men, Numbers

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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• The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.

  Ambrose

  Children, Abortion, Fetus

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• Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Animal, Medicine, Lines

  Quoted in: Klauder JV: "Interrelations of human and veterinary medicine". N Engl J Med 1958, 1856.

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• You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

  Barnes Wallis

  Inspiration, Science, Lines

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• I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

  Mike Nichols

  Drama, People, Comedy

  "Award-winning director Mike Nichols dies at 83" by Victoria Fleischer, www.pbs.org. November 20, 2014.

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• There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

  Temple Grandin

  Black And White, Autism, Lines

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Air, Together

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.146, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body.

  Neil Shubin

  Cancer, Cells, Community

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• The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Fiction, Lines, States

  1967 The New Industrial State.

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• You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

  Adrian Rogers

  Wealth, Socialism

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• I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific sensations, and so has the film. But there are also problems in which the dividing line is obliterated, or where the two infringe upon each other. More especially, the cinema can fulfill certain promises made by the ancient arts, in the realization of which painting and film become close neighbors and work together.

  Hans Richter

  Art, Sight, Two

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• A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

  Samuel Rogers

  Life, Angel, Caring

  Samuel Rogers (1856). “Poetical works”, p.147

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• It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Men

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• We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.

  Tertullian

  Father, Son, Unity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 285, 1895.

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• Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block of the Judaic power.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Block, Party, People

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.371, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

  Julie Andrews

  Country, Stars, Melting Away

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