Quotes About Division

You know what, it really highlights another problem. Changing the measurements' scale of importance, moving from one world into another, is without a doubt a culture change. Let's face it, that is exactly what we had to go through, a culture change. But how are we going to take the division through such a change?

The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sow.

I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?

There is great injustice everywhere and a rankling party-spirit, and to speak the truth and act it appears still more difficult than usual.

while humans traditionally divided themselves up into lovers and fighters, I considered myself living evidence that that was a false binary, having no skill with either set of tools. I belonged to a third group, equally useful: I was an engineer.

They were on opposite sides of this issue, and both of them had catastrophically let me down.

Hayflick limit, the natural limit that human cells have for dividing, and the stop switch happens to be telomeres that have become critically short. Are

Renewing cells include some types of normal cells that can divide, like immune cells; progenitor cells, which can keep dividing even longer; and those critical cells in our bodies called stem cells, which can divide indefinitely as long as they are healthy.

Telomeres, which shorten with each cell division, help determine how fast your cells age and when they die, depending on how quickly they wear down.

How long will the heathens rage?

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Once lead this people into war," Wilson ruminated, "and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance . . .

Like Charles Murray in The Bell Curve, Wells foresees a future divided between a permanent underclass and a "cognitive elite.

Starting with chapter 1, Smith explains how the business of civilization gets done, by isolating the basic principle that explains all social improvement: the division of labor. This is Smith's term. The idea itself probably originated with David Hume, who called it "the partition of employments." We use another, perhaps better, word for it: specialization.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The influence of the sensory equipment with which we observe, and the intellectual equipment with which we formulate the results of observation as knowledge, is so far reaching that by itself it decides the number of particles into which matter in the universe appears to be divided.

Behind many of our besetting sins and personal failures, behind the many ills that infect our church fellowships and clog the channels of Christian service—the clash of personalities and temperaments, the strife and division—lies that insidious pride of the human heart.

Cuando veo todas esas camisas negras, pardas, rojas o azules, exigiendo que te afilies a esto o aquello, pienso que antes el mundo era de los ricos y ahora va a ser de los resentidos.

Hay un momento complicado, cuando descubres que una guerra civil no es, como crees al principio, la lucha del bien contra el mal… Sólo el horror enfrentado a otro horror.

Si al menos fueran extranjeros los enemigos de España, todavía. Pero no. Todos los que con la espada, con la pluma, con la palabra, agravan y perpetúan los males de la Nación son españoles.

Se alejan los tres discutiendo, de vuelta al rincón de los mapas. Y Pato alcanza a escuchar unas últimas palabras. —En la 42.ª División se fusila poco, Faustino. Os lo vengo diciendo y no me hacéis caso… Se escarmienta y se fusila poco.

Porque buena parte de las ejecuciones y paseos dados en los dos bandos durante la Guerra Civil del 36 al 39 —o los que ahora darían algunos si pudieran— no fueron sino eso: nuestra vieja afición a seguir manteniendo viva la Inquisición por otros medios.

Son unos pueblos a los que Dios ha distinguido particularmente con la turbulencia y la ignorancia, y a los que en su totalidad ha marcado con la hostilidad y la violencia.