Division Quotes - Page 16

• I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In 1865, the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the progressives, and today it's just the opposite.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Opposites, Two

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

  Margaret Deland

  Responsibility, Loss, Anxiety

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• There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fiction, Concerned, Bookshelves

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• I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Revenge, Fighting, People

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• the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.

  Alva Myrdal

  Mother, Father, Home

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.161, Psychology Press

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• the fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.

  Elana Dykewomon

  Class, Names, Racism

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• The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Opportunity, Helping Others, People

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).

  Paul Dilascia

  Trouble, Arithmetic, Certain

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• All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Play, Consciousness, True You

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• Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.

  Bev Perdue

  Tired, America, People

  "On @CNNSOTU today: Gov. Bev Perdue, @GovernorOMalley, and @villaraigosa discuss #DNC2012". Interview with Candy Crowley, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 2, 2012.

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• I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  President, Messages, Feds

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• We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Dark, Childhood

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• We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about winning the media. It's about winning the people, and I don't think it's necessarily persuasive to eat - to cannibalize yourself. I think that you have to pick the winner.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Dark, Joy, Listening

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• In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

  Roberto Unger

  Fire, Humanity, Democracy

  "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

  Mara Liasson

  School, Law, Bridges

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• I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

  Joe Wright

  Art, Film, Commercial Art

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• There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

  Michel Foucault

  Trying, Doe, Different

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.27, Vintage

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• If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.

  Socrates

  Fall, Thinking, Order

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• Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

  Sadao Araki

  Army, Giving, Wipe

  "Until They Eat Stones" by Russell Brines, (p. 254), 1944.

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• The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

  Zhuangzi

  People, Want, Littles

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• choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Believe, Choices, Spheres

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.

  Jesse Lee Kercheval

  Art, Mean, Alive

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• The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

  Luo Guanzhong

  Long, Heaven, World

  "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Book by Luo Guanzhong (Chapter 1, opening lines), 14th century.

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• Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Two, Giving, Enemy

  "Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War" by David M. Glantz, (p. 228), 1989.

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