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• If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants. You can attack deliberately combatants, but not deliberately noncombatants. Israel acts that way. It attacks combatants and accidentally kills noncombatants. But in the case of the terrorists, it's the exact opposite. They deliberately attack combatants - noncombatants, civilians, deliberately.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Israel, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.

  Mortimer Adler

  Appreciation, Book, Nonfiction

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• Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

  Oscar Wilde

  Long, Suffering, Moments

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.

  Josephine Herbst

  Movie, Men, Media

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• Commerce unites; religion divides.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Religion, Commerce

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• Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

  Mike Birbiglia

  Comedy

  "Comedian Mike Birbiglia brings his brand of humor to the Stranahan". Interview with Kirk Baird, www.toledoblade.com. November 15, 2012.

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• The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

  Luo Guanzhong

  Long, Heaven, World

  "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Book by Luo Guanzhong (Chapter 1, opening lines), 14th century.

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• It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Suits You, Blue, Rubber

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• I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays.

  Nora Ephron

  Years, Play, Twenties

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, believermag.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.

  Suzanne Gordon

  School, Years, People

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• If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Differences, Able

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.140

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• When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them.

  Rich Barnes

  Motivational, Wall, Moving

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• What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Change, Loss, Government

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• The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hero, Heart, Past

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.159, Anchor

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• I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and women and to honor God's creation. We want our girls to know right from wrong, to always tell the truth, to treat people no matter who they are with dignity and respect, no matter how different they may seem...because we want our girls to know we are all God's children and there's so much more that unites than divides us.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Christian, Children

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• If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Political

  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Men, Age, Nationality

  "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

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• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.

  E. O. Wilson

  Race, Achievement, Humanity

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.72, Vintage

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• O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Home, Circles

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• Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

  Francis Quarles

  Riches, Increase, Estates

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.67

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• The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.

  Michael Tellinger

  Principles, Conflict, Conquer

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• It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Light, Darkness

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Buddhist, Pain

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• We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted by thousands and the last by millions, is neither fit for, nor capable of, indefinite duration: and the possibility of changing this system for one of combination without dependence, and unity of interest instead of organized hostility, depends altogether upon the future developments of the Partnership principle.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wisdom, Two, Unity

  John Stuart Mill (1848). “Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.466

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