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61 " The majority is by no means omniscient just because it is the majority. In fact, I've found that the line which divides majority opinion from mass hysteria is often so fine as to be virtually invisible. "
― J. Paul Getty , How to Be Rich
62 " It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use separate entrances for universities, banks, restaurants, and mosques; that divides restaurants with partitions so that unrelated males and females cannot sit together; that same society expects you to get into a car with a man who is not your relative, with a man who is a complete stranger, by yourself and have him take you somewhere inside a locked car, alone. "
― Manal Al-Sharif , Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
63 " Nothing divides one so much as thought. "
64 " I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify. "
― David Foster Wallace , A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
65 " Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ....." As distance always doesn't ensure solutions "
66 " The gap (between intellectuals and politicians) divides writing hands, talking heads and thinking minds of this country into two sections. One section flaunts academic achievements to make up for shortfalls in intelligence. The other asserts intelligence to camouflage deficiencies in academic excellence. In short, our intellectuals are torn by the dilemma whether they ought to carry their brains in their mouths, or mouths in their brains. "
67 " Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one. "
― David Levithan ,
68 " Prose divides shame into stations. "
― Wayne Koestenbaum , My 1980s and Other Essays
69 " Worry divides the mind. "
― Max Lucado , Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
70 " When we are babies...we need an authoritative figure to guide and take care of us. We ask no questions about that authority and imagine that the small circumference of family life is the limit of the universe...As we mature, our horizon expands and we begin to question. This continues until we either throw over our creators--our parents--for good and take their place as the creative force in our lives or find replacements for them because the terror and responsibility are too great. People go one way or the other, and this accounts for all of the great personal and political divides throughout history. "
― Charlotte Rogan , The Lifeboat
71 " Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. "
― George Eliot , Adam Bede
72 " Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso. "
73 " Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul. "
74 " A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche
75 " Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. "
76 " The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. "
77 " The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. "
78 " It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong. "
79 " True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. "
― Baltasar Gracián
80 " There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. "
― Geraldine Brooks