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• Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

  Aristotle

  People, Ignorant, Obstinate

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• When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.

  Brian Day

  Health, Government, Common Threads

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• Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

  Matthew Heywood

  Love, Adventure, Power

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• England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286

  Margaret Drabble

  Country, Tired, Mean

  1989 A Natural Curiosity.

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• If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

  Christina Stead

  Money, Business, People

  House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"

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• I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

  Abel Stevens

  Time, Long, Regularity

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided.

  Martti Ahtisaari

  Taken, Views, Groups

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• To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Heart, Kissing

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

  Arthur Keith

  Discovery, Agriculture, Groups

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

  Wendell Berry

  Educational, Tree, Connections

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• Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Regret, Business, Intimate Relationships

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.130, Penguin

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• In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

  John F. Kennedy

  America, Justice, Diversity

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• Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Class, Two, Society

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• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Age, Matter

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

  Penelope Lively

  Eye, Science, Age

  "A life in books: Penelope Lively". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Personality

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.

  John Calvin

  Eye, Order, Giving

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• There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Time, Past, Class

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.233

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• Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Equality, Rights

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Equality, Long, Firsts

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• This strange disease of modern life,
  With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Sick, Disease

  'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 201

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• For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

  Henri Bergson

  Life, Essence, Creating

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

  Bernard Crick

  Evil, Political, Politics

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• It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

  Adrian Rogers

  Truth, Errors, United

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• The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Ruins, Interest

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