Division Quotes - Page 25

• We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

  Johann Lamont

  Debate

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• One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Hopeful

  Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2007.

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• Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.

  David Maraniss

  Dream, Country, Kings

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Joy, Hearing, Albums

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree.

  Sharif Abdel Kouddous

  Country, Military, Law

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. May 9, 2011.

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• My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish identity, etc. Although there are profound divisions amongst Jews on all of these topics there are not many opportunities for deep and thoughtful dialogue about them.

  Jill Soloway

  Thoughtful, Opportunity, Israel

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't know if this was ever truly the case, but I don't feel that I need to decide between playing for a sit-down, totally silent audience and playing for a bunch of noisy, drunk people in a bar. What I do with the group is somewhere in between.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Black And White, Play, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

  Elliott Colla

  Black And White, Noir, Moral

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there was the temptation of disaffection. People looked for alternative ways to express themselves personally and politically, people doubted the system, and there was the terrible kind of division in black America between a radical leadership and a much older, compromising leadership.

  Darryl Pinckney

  War, Thinking, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.

  Kiese Laymon

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.

  Avey Tare

  Hurt, Proud, Littles

  "Animal Collective's Primitive Future". Interview with Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor.

  Glenn Beck

  Honor, Facts, Foxes

  "The Radical Truth About Anita Dunn". www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2009.

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• [Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Photography, Artist, Hair

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• All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Men, Hands, Order

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• Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.

  John Zerzan

  Heart, Technology, People

  John Zerzan (1994). “Future primitive: and other essays”

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• Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

  Alison Gopnik

  Baby, Children, Research And Development

  "We All Start Out As Scientists, But Some of Us Forget" by Chris Mooney, Indre Viskontas, www.motherjones.com. November 8, 2013.

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• The mountain receives our expressions and becomes part of us; we imprint our memories upon it and trust it with out dearest divisions of out lives. Mt. Rainier does not exist under our feet. Mt. Rainier lives in our minds

  Bruce Barcott

  Memories, Expression, Feet

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• We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Thinking, Play

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• If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

  Tommy Docherty

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Thinking, Giving

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• In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Heavyweights, Excitement

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• Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

  Dick Gephardt

  Cells, Life Is, Process

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• One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.

  Willy Brandt

  Wall, Cities, Chinese

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• Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Roman Numerals, Numbers

  "A Man Without a Country". Essay collection by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.

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