Division Quotes - Page 7

• The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.

  Henry Wriston

  Wisdom, Politics, Want

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• Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.

  John Muir

  Individuality, Degrees, Atoms

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.603, Library of America

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• If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.

  Socrates

  Fall, Thinking, Order

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• Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Perspective, Consciousness

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• Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.

  Patrick Fitzgerald

  Wife, President, Vices

  "Cheney Aide Resigns After Indictment Over CIA Leak". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2005.

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• The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Struggle, Russia, Together

  "Diplomacy of Aggression" by Leonid Nikolaevich Kutakov (p. 110), 1970.

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• After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

  Melanie Phillips

  Government, Years, Eight

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• All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Football, Able

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• The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

  John McCain

  Country, Party, Practice

  "Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals". transcripts.cnn.com. February 28, 2000.

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• Kuwait is the origin which our roots extend in it's base. The fort that we seek for shelter and stick to after God Almighty. Kuwait is the entity that maintains our presence that's united in it's features and divisions.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Kuwait, Roots, Sticks

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• When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

  Chili Davis

  Yankees, Champion, World

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• In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Opposites, World

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• Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

  Charles Babbage

  Important, Principles, Economy

  1832 On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.

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• People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.

  Henry Adams

  War, Believe, Sunday

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• Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, World, Territory

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• I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Dark, Joy, Listening

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• What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.

  John Dewey

  Children, School, Thinking

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• I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Revenge, Fighting, People

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• We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  Maureen Duffy

  Morning, Knowledge, Humility

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• I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Marketing, Culture

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Opportunity, Helping Others, People

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.

  Alva Myrdal

  Mother, Father, Home

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.161, Psychology Press

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• The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

  Zhuangzi

  People, Want, Littles

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• your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).

  Paul Dilascia

  Trouble, Arithmetic, Certain

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• the fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.

  Elana Dykewomon

  Class, Names, Racism

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