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Quotes About Division

The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell that is dividing.
~ Mark Walport
When you shake mercury it keeps trembling until it reaches a point when it stops. When you get me started on Partition, that is how I am. It goes back and keeps shaking me up, on and on.
~ Gulzar
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
~ Antonia Fraser
One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
~ J. D. Vance
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.
~ Rick Wright
From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one court case - one disputed trial - plunged an entire country into an angry debate, creating unresolvable divisions between people who had previously not known that they disagreed with one another.
~ Anne Applebaum
This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
~ Fiona Shaw
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
~ Haile Selassie
Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
~ Jim Goad
I think the Left doesn't know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic. It eats its own.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The key thing about us is that we all belong to multiple tribes. Even if we are predisposed into dividing the world into 'us' and 'them,' it's incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who is an 'us' and who is a 'them' at any given moment.
~ Robert Sapolsky
As our politics have become more polarized, the essential loyalties shift from ideas to parties to tribes to individuals. Nothing else ultimately matters.
~ Charlie Sykes
Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
~ Vladimir Putin
It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.
~ Bruce Bickel
Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Clarifications create either great communities or great conflicts.
~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity.
~ Jason Versey
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.
~ Frei Betto
I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.
~ Sean Hannity
I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.
~ Bum Phillips
Thus, discovery of an embryo in the earliest stages of cell division shows beyond a doubt that Precambrian sedimentary rocks can, under the right circumstances, preserve soft-bodied organisms.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
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~ Stephen J. Cannell
She wondered why white folks, who had everything, spent so much time fighting over who got how much, while black folks, who had nothing, just sat around feeling sorry for they selves.
~ Stephen L. Carter