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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

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It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries. ↗

— Herman Gorter

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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon. ↗

— Saad Hariri

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States. ↗

— Robert Welch

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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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