Partition Quotes - Page 2

• After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Badass, War, Army

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• In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sweet, Numbers

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• Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

  Robert Southey

  People, Born, Wit

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• I'll grant the random access to my heart,
  Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love;
  And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove
  And in our bound partition never part.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Humorous, Heart, Two

  "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, 1974.

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• Had partition beencarried out, the history of our people would have been different and six millionJews in Europe would not have been killed---most of them would be inIsrael

  David

  Europe, People, Different

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• What does NOT work best for anyone, though, is being forced to keep a Windows partition around just to play video games. The best operating system for playing games is the one that lets you keep your word processor, instant messenger, email, and music player open in the background while you play. The worst is the one that will force you to shut all that down just to screw around for a few minutes.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Player, Playing Games, Doe

  "Ryan C. Gordon and Michael Simms (3. Ryan C. Gordon - Part II)". Interview with Robin Heggelund Hansen, www.tek.no. March 10, 2009.

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• And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!

  John Betjeman

  Loneliness, Lying, Clouds

  John Betjeman, “Business Girls”

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• The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be the case even if the corporeal element were as pure and superior as the substance of the spheres ; how much more must this be the case with our dark and opaque body. However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between God and us.

  Maimonides

  Dark, Men, Mind

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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• Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

  John Dryden

  Literature, Madness, Wit

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 150

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• The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Philosophical, Vision, Lasts

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• The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Science, Tree

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.90, Modern Library

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• The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

  Mark Twain

  House, Mind, Rooms

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.500, Courier Corporation

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• They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.

  Virginia Woolf

  Ocean, Night, Details

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.57, Virginia Woolf

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• I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

  Yash Chopra

  Believe, Thinking, Lahore

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government, as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.

  James Madison

  Mean, Government, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.238

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• There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.

  Clive Barker

  Fall, Heart, Sight

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever.

  Menachem Begin

  Israel, People, Forever

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• There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.

  Gerry Adams

  Government, Loyalists, Six

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• Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.

  Regis Debray

  Technology, Understanding, Soul

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• Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

  Ovid

  Love, Kings, Dominion

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.187, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

  Seamus Costello

  Race, Facts, Revolutionary

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• DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Disorder, Bowels

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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• She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Doors, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1066, Delphi Classics

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• Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.

  Penelope Douglas

  Love You, Missing

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• When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Father, Nice, School

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