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Letter "D" » divisions
«The Pope? How many divisions has he got?»
«PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one --the knowledge and the dream.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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One The,
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The Dream,
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wing
«The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
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Activist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
authoritarian,
biological,
callous,
cell,
chattel,
divisions,
injustice,
Sex and,
The Family,
trained
«Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.»
Author: Thomas Mann
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Essayist,
Novelist)
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About:
Time
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Keywords:
announce,
bells,
blare,
blaring,
divisions,
fire bell,
mortals,
passage,
pistols,
thunder,
trumpets
«Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.»
«Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.»
«Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.»
«These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.»
«When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
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Author,
Editor,
Philosopher,
Teacher)
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Keywords:
celebrate,
divisions,
mythologies,
mythology,
nation state,
States,
symbol,
the country,
The New