Divided Quotes - Page 23

• With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Moon

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.105, New World Library

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• Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Opposites, Expectations

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1018, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much), and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.

  Robert Townsend

  Class, Two, People

  "Up the Organization".

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• Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.

  Anthony

  Soul, Devil, Hell

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• Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.

  Isak Dinesen

  Two, Devil, Substance

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided into things black and white. On top of this,’ he added, ‘there was the irresistible impulse to draw. I cannot remember wanting to be anything else other than an artist.’

  Ronald Searle

  Black And White, Artist, Remember

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• Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a divided people to the united congregation of Jewish power at a difficult time in the nation's history. This argument alone is so persuasive as to warrant the discarding of democracy in favor of anything that would ensure our unity - or life itself. For disunity means death.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Hate, Party, Mean

  "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

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• Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Errors, Taught

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.279, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Two nations divided by a common language.

  Winston Churchill

  Two Nations, Common, Language

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• I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religion, Sacred

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.

  Paul Nurse

  Marijuana, Cells, Effort

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• Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.

  Bob Dylan

  Mind, Church, Different

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• Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

  William Wells Brown

  Responsibility, Tyrants, Numbers

  William Wells Brown (1853). “Clotel; or, The president's daughter”, p.179

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• A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths... with no center of union and no common interest.

  Josiah Tucker

  People, Revolution, Till The End

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• I see the Christian world like this: we've inherited a divided map of the truth, and each of us has a piece. Our traditions teach us that no one else has a valid map and that our own church's piece shows us all the terrain and roads that exist. In fact, there is much more terrain, more roads, and more truth for us to see if we can accept and read one another's maps, fitting them together to give us a clearer picture of the larger Christian tradition.

  Michael Spencer

  Christian, Jesus, Giving

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• I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Believe, Bye

  Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

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• Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity.

  George Will

  Men, Kentucky, Skills

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• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

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• Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.

  Victor Robinson

  Class, Two, Widows

  Victor Robinson (1907). “William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft”

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• The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Reality, Other Worlds

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• The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Health, Medicine, Body

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• What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Our Generation, People

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 7 : Economic Control and Totalitarianism, 1940 - 1943.

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• Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Party, Reading, Passion

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.379

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• The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

  Douglas Hurd

  Europe, America, Leaving

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• DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Business, Night, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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