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“HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.”
Ambrose Bierce
“For winter's rains and ruins are over,/ And all the season of snows and sins;/ The days dividing lover and lover,/ The light that loses, the night that wins.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“I do perceive here a divided duty.”
William Shakespeare
“Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.”
W. R. Inge
“War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states”
Donald Kagan
“We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.”
Viktor Yushchenko
“If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around”
Christina Stead
“So we talked about the tune, we talked about the lyric and about how we would divide it up and approach it. There certainly wasn't time to say, 'By the way, do you remember 1965, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts? What was that all about?' ”
James Taylor
“The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.”
Will Durant
“But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.”
Bible
