Partition Quotes
43 quotes by 40 authors
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After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the…
— Sam Manekshaw
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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
— Mark Twain
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches…
— Francis Bacon
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Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?
— Henry Maudsley
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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be…
— Menachem Begin
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I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.
— Yash Chopra
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The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
— James Madison
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his…
— Plato
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Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle…
— Francis Parkman
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Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge,…
— Helene Cixous
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There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if…
— Gerry Adams
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
— Park Geun-hye
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When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and…
— Kenneth G. Wilson
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Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like…
— Penelope Douglas
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...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition…
— Virginia Woolf
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For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.
— Marc Chagall
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What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land…
— Shimon Peres
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Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding…
— Regis Debray
Who Wrote These Partition Quotes
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