Division Quotes - Page 24

• I read on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that NATO is opening up a major terror division. And I think that's great. And I think we should get - because we pay approximately 73 percent of the cost of NATO. It's a lot of money to protect other people.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Thinking, Opening Up

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Thinking, Worry, Doe

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Running, Enemy, Woods

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I certainly hear a lot of people say that Donald Trump not only incited some bad things. He also exposed some things. He exposed pain in America that a lot of us didn't have the full extent of, some of the divisions and chasms in the country.

  David Brooks

  Country, Pain, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Reality, Color, Political

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

  Henry Mayhew

  Branches, Firsts, Impossible

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• WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Weed, Real, Shadow

  Oliver Cromwell (1860). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the First Edition with Elucidations”, p.142

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• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  Park Geun-hye

  Fairness, Conflict, Ends

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• This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.

  Tito Colliander

  Giving, Effort, Soul

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.23, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Country, World, Democratic

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• "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Science, Knives

  Lewis Carroll (1929). “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces”

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• Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Europe, Names, Two

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• We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

  Johann Lamont

  Debate

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• If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Bridges, Different, Might

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• The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

  Stuart Law

  Team, People, Bars

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• Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

  David Dreman

  Perception, Cards, Credit

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• The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Long, Majority

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• As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions:
  (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36);
  (2) The Book of the Similitudes (chaps. 37-7l)-,
  (3) The Book of Astronomical Writings (chaps. 72-82);
  (4) The Book of Dream Visions (chaps. 83-90); and
  (5) The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chaps. 91-107).

  Craig A. Evans

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Two, Actors, Behaviour

  First Question & Answer Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK, September 7, 1971.

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• By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

  Alain de Botton

  Self, Imagination, Identity

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dream, Struggle, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals; it is a matter of staying the course, being consistent and persistent, and making it happens.

  Urijah Faber

  Goal, Champion, Matter

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.

  Joseph Addison

  Witty, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.130

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• We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic.

  Sergei Ivanov

  War, Russia, Defense

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• Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.

  Slobodan Milosević

  World, Woe, Toxic

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