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Quotes About Fragmentation

I'm not the first person to talk about this, but L.A. is just sort of a weird city because it's just a bunch of little towns put together under the umbrella of L.A. So people feel disconnected from each other and far apart, and in a relationship, that can also be a thing.
~ Paul Rust
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.
~ Wole Soyinka
Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.
~ Bob Seger
If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.
~ Robyn Davidson
If a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand.
~ Bible
The problem is not that Afghans unite and then cannot be conquered; the problem is that Afghans fragment and then cannot be governed
~ Tamim Ansary
If everyone were allowed to interpret the ambiguous passages for themselves, their conclusions might diverged wildly. People would move apart in as many different directions as there were people, the community would fragment, and the world swallow up the pieces and who was to say the great revelation would not then vanish as if it had never been?
~ Tamim Ansary
I could no longer picture Rosalind in my mind's eye; the tender vision of the girl in white had been blown to pieces as if by a nuclear bomb. This was something unimaginable, something hollow as the yellowed husks that insects leave behind in dry grass, blowing with cold alien winds and a fine corrosive dust that shredded everything it touched.
~ Tana French
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~ Ted Widmer
Music is split up now into little pockets.
~ Chris Martin
Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
~ Jo Brand
Modern man is sick because he is not whole.
~ Carl Jung
What is BFR?" asked Pete Starling. For the graph's vertical scale was labeled thus. "Bolide Fragmentation Rate
~ Neal Stephenson
There are two disadvantages to this political fragmentation. Small countries are often formed as a result of civil war within an earlier multi-ethnic polity – the most common form of conflict since 1945. That in itself is economically disruptive. In addition, they can be economically inefficient even in peacetime, too small to justify all the paraphernalia of statehood
~ Niall Ferguson
Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.
~ David Shields
Quizá ninguna religión contenga toda la verdad del mundo. Quizá cada religión contenga fragmentos de la verdad y nosotros tengamos la responsabilidad de identificar esos fragmentos y volver a unirlos.
~ Christopher Paolini
Multiple personality disorder was redefined in 1994, when the name was changed to dissociative identity disorder (DID) so as to reflect a better understanding of the condition. Whereas the term multiple personality means that the person has developed several different personalities, dissociative identity means that a fragmentation of the main personality has occurred.
~ Catherine Gildiner
The strands of my soul which should weave together to create a life have shredded and ripped into fragments so tangled up that I have no hope of setting them free. I
~ Cathryn Kemp
The paradox of the modern age, I realized, is that we live in a world that is closely integrated in some ways, but fragmented in others. Shocks are increasingly contagious. But we continue to behave and think in tiny silos.
~ Gillian Tett
Îl z?p?cise pur ?i simplu mul?imea aceea nespus de pestri??, de parc? diavolul f?râmase lumea buc??i ?i le adunase apoi la loc, f?r? niciun sens, f?r? niciun rost.
~ Gogol Nikolai
To prayerfully remember is to cooperate with God in the "re-membering" of ourselves. It is to actively engage with the Spirit in uniting those fragmented areas of ourselves that have been split off and alienated through sin.
~ Jacqueline Syrup Bergan
On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.
~ Virginia Postrel
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
~ Jon Katz
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
~ Abraham Lincoln