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"How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is."
"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property."
"I don't see anything happening [in heavyweight division] when I watch these fights, they are very boring. Not only that, but you never heard of any of the fighters."
"As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital ."
"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."
"I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California."
"Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance."
"If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions."
"I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art."
"We tried the first evening to go down Division Street and Rush Street, but we couldn't get in anywhere because they didn't like [ Emilio Estevez] sneakers and they didn't like my boots. This was 1983 or '84, so it was ridiculous. We ended up at a jazz club, where you go downstairs and there's a very cool place."
"To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd."
"Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?"
"What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made."
"These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us."
"The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks."
