Divided Quotes - Page 19

• Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Thinking, Evil, World

  Interview with Win Butler, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Heart, Thinking

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• The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Taken, Reality, Profound

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• Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Eye, Oneness, Perception

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “Bowl of Saki”, p.142, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

  Arthur Koestler

  Individuality, Definitions, Multitudes

  Darkness at Noon (1941) (translation by Daphne Hardy)

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• The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes-the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Jobs, Elephants, Mind

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• If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany those in their charge. Dialogue must be serious, without fear, sincere. It is important to recall that the language of young people in formation today is different from that in the past: we are living through an epochal change. Formation is a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mold the People of God. This really gives me goose bumps.

  Pope Francis

  Art, Past, Creating

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• Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.

  Jerry Moran

  Race, Crusades, Audience

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• It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Unity, World, Problem

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• In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

  Alexander Smith

  Flower, Book, Past

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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• And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Couple, Book, School

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

  Kofi Annan

  Religious, Effort, Understanding

  "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and by UN agencies". www.un.org. September 16, 2004.

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• I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions.

  Ross Macdonald

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: Three Exciting Novels: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die [and] The Barbarous Coast”, New York : Knopf

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• An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

  Henri Matisse

  Character, Artist, Squares

  Henri Matisse, Susan Lambert, Victoria and Albert Museum (1981). “Matisse lithographs”

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• Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

  Tom Daschle

  Responsibility, People, Requirements

  "Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, Rep. Dick Gephardt Extend Hand of Bipartisanship to President-Elect George W. Bush". www.cnn.com. December 14, 2000.

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• If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises de l'événement), are to each other as the probabilities of the event, given the causes: and the probability of each cause is equal to the probability of the event, given that cause, divided by the sum of all the probabilities of the event, given each of the causes.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Numbers, Events

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• We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Names, Giving

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press

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• A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, World, Politics

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• I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.

  Andy Rooney

  Believe, People, President

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• Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Evil

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• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  Sam Shepard

  Sides, Fence, Breeding

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• Doing yoga on the road was really a life-saver, and a life-changer….It kept me focused and gave me more control over the way I divided my energy. I realize that if [a place of goodness] is the basis for all decision-making, then the road is clear.

  Sheryl Crow

  Yoga, Decision, Way

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• The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

  David Nabarro

  Moving, Europe, Sea

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• When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Lebanon, Resistance

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• The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Thinking, Two, Long

  FaceBook post by Thomas Pynchon from Mar 09, 2015

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