Quotes with upper-division

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benito Mussolini We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.
    Source: In 1921. As reported in: "Modern dictatorship" (J. Cape, 1939) by Diana Spearman, p. 167
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...controls on behavior shift from the intermediate levels of human experience (social, emotional and religious) to the lower (military and political) or to the upper (ideological). They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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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.
    Source: 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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  • William F. Buckley Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.
    William F. Buckley
    American political commentator and journalist
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  • Judith Guest Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
    Judith Guest
     
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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.
    Source: 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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  • Bjork It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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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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