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• Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.

  Bret Lott

  Meaningful, Moving, Book

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• The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

  Pema Chodron

  Ego, Spirit, Heal

  "Comparison Is the Voice of the Ego" by Hera Bosley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Cities, Confusion

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.41

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• I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

  Benjamin Barber

  Inspirational, Life, Strong

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• Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 11, 2014

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• It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ethnicity, Diversity, Democracy

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.109, Pan Macmillan

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• Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

  Jonathan Haidt

  Empathy, Moral, Righteousness

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.49, Vintage

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• We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.

  Forrest Church

  Spring, Destiny, Answers

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• In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide.

  Isabel Colegate

  Taken, Men, Years

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• Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and those who haven't. Later still - at least, if we are lucky (or, on the other hand, unlucky) - it divides into those who have endured grief, and those who haven't. These divisions are absolute; they are tropics we cross.

  Julian Barnes

  Sex, Grief, Hands

  Julian Barnes (2013). “Levels of Life”, p.68, Random House

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• Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Grief, Circles

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “Works: Edited with an Introduction”

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• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Wall, Writing, Years

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came to one conclusion: We have to save each other. It’s the only way to save ourselves.

  Eboo Patel

  Strong, World, Way

  "A Muslim And A Jew Meet On A College Campus - And It’s Beautiful" by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2015.

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• The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, Political, Claims

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• I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

  Joe Lieberman

  Lying, Believe, Borders

  "Congress bids farewell to influential lawmakers", www.foxnews.com.

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• I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us. And I'm going to bring us together. Because you know what? You know what? White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them, because their kids don't have health insurance either and their kids need better schools too.

  Howard Dean

  School, Kids, Race

  "Southern Exposure". www.motherjones.com. November 10, 2003.

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• Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

  Gerrard Winstanley

  War, Party, Land

  Gerrard Winstanley (1944). “Gerrard Winstanley: selections from his works”

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• The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

  Audre Lorde

  Our World, Differences, Empowering

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Long Ago, People

  Tony Blair (2010). “A Journey”, p.28, Random House

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• The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them [the Illuminati] to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other.

  Myron Coureval Fagan

  Fighting, Race, Order

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• To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Birthday, Wall, Years

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns for that movement so that they can sexualize them at the earliest possible age. It really is insidious and I agree with you, it is a super sin.

  E.W. Jackson

  Children, Teaching, Parent

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• If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural divides tearing us apart, you must read Eric Deggans’ Race-Baiter. No book of recent vintage so thoroughly dissects the media’s monetized appetite for division. Provocative, honest, and smart, Race-Baiter is a supremely important book. Read it and let the conversation begin.

  Connie May Fowler

  Country, Smart, Book

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• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Culture, Tvs, Film

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