Quotes with division

  • Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
  • In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

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  • John Adams Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Angela Davis And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.
    Metropolitan life
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Barbara Demick By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • George Macdonald Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abdallah II Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Brock Lesnar I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Camille Paglia In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bao Dai In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Aaron Hill Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Joseph Stalin Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Alan Dundes There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Bill Wulf There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
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  • Cat Stevens There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • A. C. Swinburne Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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