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• My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

  John Keats

  Book, My Friends, Chests

  Last poem which doubled as his last will and testament,

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• Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.

  Ted Cruz

  Religious, Military, Years

  "Cruz jumps into Iraq discussion" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 18, 2014.

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• It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Mistake, Writing, Errors

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.10, Modern Library

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• People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, People

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• Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.

  Per Petterson

  Important, Doe, Should

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• if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.

  Susan Howatch

  Wind, Land, Two

  Susan Howatch, Bruce Johnson, Charles Adolph Huttar (2005). “Scandalous Truths: Essays by and about Susan Howatch”, p.81, Susquehanna University Press

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• Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Wisdom, Math

  "Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" by Robert Jungk, (p. 249), 1958.

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• …Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Light, Infinite, Ends

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• Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Lord Of The Ring, Stills

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Way, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.338, Penguin

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• We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Science, Together

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• A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

  James Wolcott

  Fun, Reflection, Class

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  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Luck, Enemy

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

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• Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Done, Organized, Humans

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• Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Happiness, Marriage

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.484, eKitap Projesi

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• Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

  Lewis Thomas

  Opportunity, Two, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Silence, Till The End, Noble

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865)

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• Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

  Tecumseh

  Song, Native American, Great Day

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

  Cat Stevens

  Healing, Way Forward, Common Humanity

  "The Billboard Q&A: Yusuf Islam". Interview with Nigel Williamson, November 17, 2006.

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• I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

  Steven Spielberg

  Character, Thinking, Keys

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• The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Men, Doers

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.204, Hoover Press

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• I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this many times. I don't plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.

  Ariel Sharon

  Division, Jerusalem, Lasts

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