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• As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4265, Delphi Classics

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• When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Opposites, Two

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell (1939). “The de Coverley papers”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.

  John Derbyshire

  Beauty, Math, Numbers

  John Derbyshire (2003). “Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics”, p.21, Joseph Henry Press

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• We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.

  Marita Golden

  Loyalty, Daughter, Real

  Marita Golden (2011). “Saving Our Sons”, p.185, Anchor

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• It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
  That all sin is divided into two parts.
  One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very
  important

  Ogden Nash

  Education, Art, Two

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.

  Mark Udall

  Night, Two, President

  "Senator Pushes Bipartisan Seating Chart For State Of The Union" by Wes Barrett, www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

  Shimon Peres

  People, Levels, Easy

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• Your work life is divided into two distinct areas - what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, What Matters, Two

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• I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.

  John Kasich

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Compassion

  "Gov. Kasich: fighting ISIS “at some point it will require boots on the ground”". "State of the Union" with Gloria Borger, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. February 22, 2015.

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• As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies.

  Paul Sadler

  Two, Secret, Exaltation

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• The more divided people of color are in a system of white supremacy/privilege, the weaker they will be, both individually and collectively.

  Tim Tebow

  Color, White, People

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• The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.

  George Soros

  Country, Struggle, Europe

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

  Benjamin Carson

  America, Unity, Trying

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

  John Kasich

  Country, Stronger, United

  GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 06, 2015.

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• We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.

  Shimon Peres

  Europe, America, Giving

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking is totally different from when you want to make peace. So under attack you behave like if you want a hawk, when peace comes you become a dove.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Israel, Two

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

  Tom Paulin

  Class, Creative, Culture

  "The vernacular city" by Tom Paulin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2002.

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• Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Heaven, Soul

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.319, Counterpoint

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• When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Funny Things, Two, People

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

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• There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Self, Common

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• The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  People, Groups, Watches

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• Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.

  John Sayles

  Country, Believe, Wings

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• President Obama, when he was elected, he could have been a unifying figure. He could have chosen to be a leader on race relations and bring us together. And he hasn't done that, he's made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions that have divided us rather than bringing us together.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Race, Decision

  "Cruz on Baltimore: Obama Has "Inflamed Racial Tensions" Instead Of Bringing Us Together" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit unwillingly. It could hardly fail to injure social peace and harmony.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Class, Two, Calling

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