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• Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

  Willard Scott

  Nbc, News, Fields

  "Nancy Fields, beloved member of TODAY family, passes away". www.today.com. January 24, 2011.

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• What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Hierarchy, States

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• Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

  John Milton

  Couple, Hate, Law

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• One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Use, Humans, Human Beings

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Nsa, Fads

  "Snowden: NSA pressured EU into creating ‘European bazaar’ of spy networks". www.rt.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand - 'How many divisions have you?' ... I'm tired of babying the Soviets.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, War, Tired

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• Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Common, Irrational

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Government, India

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• I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.

  Scott Kazmir

  Tampa

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• Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Religious, War, Wipe

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• Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star.

  Gaby Sanchez

  Stars, Nice, League

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• 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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• There are three foundational issues or three divisions that I should say that Sharia fits into, one is penal law of course and that is what gets all the attention, there's two countries in the world right now that actually have a Federal mandate to enact penal law according to the Sharia, that's Saudi Arabia, and Iran.

  Mark Durie

  Country, Iran, Law

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Every team in the NFL is hard, but when we play our own division it's a fight. Our goal is to make it to the playoffs and to do that we have to win games within the division. We match up well against this division, it's just a matter of getting on the field and doing what we know we can do.

  Giovani Bernard

  Team, Fighting, Winning

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

  Adam Hochschild

  Silence, Trying, Events

  Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

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• What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Essentials

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of simple subtraction, multiplication and division, can be performed by it only just to that extent in which it is possible, by judicious mathematical arrangement and artifices, to reduce them to a series of additions.

  Ada Lovelace

  Simple, Reality, Differences

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• Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.

  Patrick Fitzgerald

  Wife, President, Vices

  "Cheney Aide Resigns After Indictment Over CIA Leak". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2005.

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• The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Struggle, Russia, Together

  "Diplomacy of Aggression" by Leonid Nikolaevich Kutakov (p. 110), 1970.

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• After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

  Melanie Phillips

  Government, Years, Eight

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• All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Football, Able

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• The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

  John McCain

  Country, Party, Practice

  "Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals". transcripts.cnn.com. February 28, 2000.

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• Kuwait is the origin which our roots extend in it's base. The fort that we seek for shelter and stick to after God Almighty. Kuwait is the entity that maintains our presence that's united in it's features and divisions.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Kuwait, Roots, Sticks

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• When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

  Chili Davis

  Yankees, Champion, World

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• In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Opposites, World

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