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  • There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
  • As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
  • Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
  • The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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  • Benjamin Franklin All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joseph Addison It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Aesop United we stand, divided we fall.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Plato Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Anna H. Shaw Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
    Anna H. Shaw
     
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  • Arthur Keith Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Barney Frank Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Steven Wright Black holes are where God divided by zero.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • John Ruskin Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • A. A. Milne Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Collange Christine Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
    Collange Christine
     
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  • John Calvin Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything… our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • William Shakespeare He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jane Austen In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Benjamin Graham Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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