Divides Quotes - Page 20

• It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

  Lauren Oliver

  Distance, Old Life, Has Beens

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Heart, Assets, One Thing

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Mar 15, 2012

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• The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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• In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.

  Wes Fesler

  Diversity, Violent, Strongest

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• Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 23, 2014

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• The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

  Christopher Lasch

  Definitions, Our Society, Sides

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• In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to divide their time and studies between the mind and the body, and that both become the object of their application; but, unfortunately, all is given to the latter and nothing to the former. The legs are rarely guided by the brain, and, since intelligence and taste do not reside in the feet, one often goes astray.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Feet, Order

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• Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government...

  Ron Paul

  Military, Government, Lobbyists

  Ron Paul's speech at New Hampshire Homeschool Meet and Greet, www.youtube.com. September 30, 2007.

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• Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Individuality, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Devil and Miss Prym”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

  Mitch Daniels

  Effort, Favors, Curry

  "Transcript: Daniels gives GOP response to State of the Union". www.cnn.com. January 24, 2012.

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• It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

  Jefferson Davis

  Differences, Rivers, Mountain

  Jefferson Davis (1938). “The rise and fall of the Confederate government”

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• If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Peace, Taken, Thinking

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• Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

  John Nelson Darby

  Children, Able, Child Of God

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• I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

  Yuri Milner

  Years, Zuckerberg, Entrepreneur

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• Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

  Ken Auletta

  Journalism, Problem, Owners

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

  Rene Descartes

  Encouragement, Philosophical, Simplicity

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes, 1637.

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• The act of discovering  who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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• When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 25, 2014

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• It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

  Annie Dillard

  Birthday, Self, Ironic

  1974 Of self-consciousness. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.6.

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• We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Depth, World

  "How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

  Paul Farmer

  Order, Lasts, Facts

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• Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

  Karl Kraus

  Time, People, Democracy

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

  Ivan Illich

  School, Simple, Two

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• In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Class, Community, Black

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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