Division Quotes - Page 6

• Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

  Desmond Tutu

  Diversity, Unity, Different

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• I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division.

  Deontay Wilder

  Heavyweights, Want, Excitement

  "Deontay Wilder decisions Stiverne" by Dan Rafael, abcnews.go.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, America, Class

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

  Jane Asher

  School, Knowing, Long

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• Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. Why is man your god and not the Creator?

  Suzy Kassem

  Hurt, Brother, Men

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• Look, there’s no such thing as the master division to me. I’m going to compete as an adult until I realize I can no longer handle the new kids’ pace. Right now–at 28 years of age, Ican’t see myself stopping until I’m 34, 35 years old.

  Roger Gracie

  Kids, Years, Age

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• You can be vegetarian and eat fish. Its your choice, just say: I am what I am. There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Choices, Vegetarian, Hardcore

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• What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Compassion, Color

  Speech the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, April 5, 1968.

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• I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Children, Divorce, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Nature, Real

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.287

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• This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.

  Don Paterson

  Reading, Heal Itself, Practice

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• You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high. You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life. You are here to help others to make their life happy. We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and excel. We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions. We are here to encompass the world with love and light.

  Amit Ray

  Happy Life, Helping Others, Light

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• For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  Interview with Vendela Vida, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

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• The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Creativity, Exercise

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• What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Essentials

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Race, Age, Prejudice

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.45, Arktos

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• Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

  Aristotle

  Block, Agriculture, Land

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• We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Believe, Mean

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• Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mean, Thinking, Speech

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.599, Best Books on

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• There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

  Michel Foucault

  Trying, Doe, Different

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.27, Vintage

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• I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Politics, Misery

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.154, Hackett Publishing

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• With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wisdom, Views, Law

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• I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

  Joe Wright

  Art, Film, Commercial Art

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• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

  Mara Liasson

  School, Law, Bridges

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• In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

  Roberto Unger

  Fire, Humanity, Democracy

  "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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