Dividing Quotes - Page 4

• Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lines, Satan, Snares

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The crucible is a dividing line, a turning point, and those who have gone through it feel they are very different from the way they were before. Believing that they have been transformed or have transformed themselves, those who survive the crucible (and many don't) are more confident, more willing to take future risks. That new self-confidence is grounded in the belief that he or she has done something hard and done it well.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Believe, Self Confidence, Risk

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Animal, Rocks

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• There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

  Temple Grandin

  Black And White, Autism, Lines

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

  Pope Francis

  Wall, Hatred, Uniting

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In effect, dividing your attention means that neither (or none) of the things you're working on is really getting the full effect of your intelligence, and that it in the end takes you longer than it would if you did one thing at a time.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, Attention, Ends

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

  Steven Wright

  Zero, Math, Black

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• I want to win. [...] We're not going on win by doing what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do each and every day. Dividing the country. Saying, creating a grievance kind of environment. We're going to win when we unite people with a hopeful, optimistic message. I have that message because I was a governor of a state that saw people lifted up, because we had high sustained economic growth.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Optimistic, Winning

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)". www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

  Annie Proulx

  Men, Experts, Affair

  Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Past, Lines, Radiation

  Sir William Lawrence Bragg (1975). “The Development of X-ray Analysis”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think its important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Thinking, Race, Important

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• It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

  Joseph Addison

  Passing Away, Together, Cards

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.315

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• This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

  Peg Bracken

  Children, Growth, Lines

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

  Margaret Oliphant

  People, Way, My Own

  Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.190, Broadview Press

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• Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.

  Margery Fish

  Baby, Important, Gardening

  Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.39, Pavilion Books

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• The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

  Hannah Arendt

  Being In Love, Destiny, People

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Littles, Gender, Bases

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• Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Careers, Judging, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we like. Even though our supposed possession of a soul and superior intelligence are used to create an arbitrary dividing line over rights, the fact remains that all animals have the capacity to experience pain and suffering, and in suffering they are our equals.

  Nathaniel Altman

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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• The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

  Anne Frank

  World, Riches, Rooms

  Anne Frank (2010). “Tales from the Secret Annexe”, Peter Halban

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• We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

  James McGreevey

  Wise, Kindness, Ideas

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• The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

  James Buchan

  Wish, Needs, Lines

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• If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Sweet, Heart

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

  Benjamin Graham

  Ratios, Earning, Investing

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• Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Fashion, Wall

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