Divides Quotes

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

Mairead Corrigan

Common Humanity, Important, Humanity

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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

Inspirational, Inspiring, Equality

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All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung. ... This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i.e., divide the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishment to the Mouths of vegetable roots.
His underestimate of the value of manure.

Jethro Tull

Vegetables, Roots, Use

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I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

Tony Blair

Responsibility, Journey, Thinking

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To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

Theodore Roosevelt

Equality, Racism, Lines

Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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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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To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

Friendship, True Friend, Real

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You cant please all the people all the time.

Miranda Richardson

People, Please, Cant

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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength, Fitness, Bodybuilding

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When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Happiness, Who I Am

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Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Socrates

Humility, Pride, Men

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If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

Dan Mangan

People, Important, Use

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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership, Motivation, Differences

Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.36, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

Thomas Brooks

Truth Is

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I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

Thomas Browne

Men, Differences, Justice

Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.10

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Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.

Rene Descartes

Hands, Pieces, Difficulty

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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

George Eliot

Travel, Journey, Views

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.381

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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Motivational, Time

Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934

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At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Happiness, Inspiring

Paulo Coelho (2009). “Eleven Minutes: A Novel”, p.1, Harper Collins

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There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Robert Benchley

Class, Two, People

Of All Things ch. 20 (1921)

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A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.

George H. W. Bush

Mean, People, Decision

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It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

Alfred Korzybski

Old School, Men, Intuition

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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

Faith, Atheist, People

"2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt". Book by James A. Haught, 1996.

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We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

Ronald Reagan

Hater, Religious, America

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It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

Sun Tzu

War, Army, Two

Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.13, GENERAL PRESS

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