Divided Quotes

• One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Hopeful

  Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2007.

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• If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Retirement, Future

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 27, 2016

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• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Twilight

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

  Paulo Coelho

  Happiness, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 18, 2011

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• A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Fall, Government

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Humor

  "Fictional character: Alvy Singer". "Annie Hall", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

  Daniel De Leon

  Religious, Past, Race

  Daniel De Leon (1915). “Two pages from Roman history: I. Plebs leaders and labor leaders. II. The warning of the Gracchi”

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  As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Artist, Simplicity

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• We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Unity, Together

  The Fourteen Points, delivered 8 January 1918

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• I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Patriotic, Government

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Race, Racism

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• A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

  Bill Parcells

  Basketball, Team, Adversity

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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• All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Humanity, Criminal Mind

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• Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.

  Aesop

  Fall, School, Unity

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• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Two Nations

  The Canterville Ghost pt. 1 (1887) See George Bernard Shaw 58

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• The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

  Terry Pratchett

  Numbers, Mobster, Members

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• All Gaul is divided into three parts.

  Julius Caesar

  Latin, Rome, Three

  De Bello Gallico bk. 1, sec. 1

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• My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

  James Arthur

  Beautiful, Dad, Believe

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• A species divided against itself will eventually fall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Fall, Enlightenment

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• We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, March On Washington, Laughing

  "Donald Trump once called Electoral College 'a disaster'; now says it's 'actually genius'" by Jennifer Earl, www.cbsnews.com. November 10, 2016.

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• I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, People, Division

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

  Ninette de Valois

  Country, Gnarly, Feet

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• Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

  Terry Eagleton

  Writing, Past, Secret

  "Conquering history" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.

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• My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Romantic, Cowboy

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• Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mean, Chicago, Degrees

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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