Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"
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Division
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Aristotle
Philosopher
"Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us."
Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds."
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians."
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"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."
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"Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds."
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"I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition."
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"Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?"
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"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."
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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."
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"Envy creates the beginning of strife."
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"The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin."
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"I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division."
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"When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division."
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"Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations"
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"I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them."
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"Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars."
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"The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market"
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"The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science."
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"A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians."
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"Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?"
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"Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature."
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"I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway"
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"The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions."
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