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• And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.

  Veronica Roth

  Intelligent, Brave, Peaceful

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• My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior

  Veronica Roth

  Blood, Parent, Enough

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• The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

  Veronica Roth

  Evil, Giving, Choices

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• Every question that can be answered must beanswered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must bechallenged when they arise.Wrong answers must be corrected.Correct answers must be affirmed. —From the Erudite faction manifesto

  Veronica Roth

  Answers, Process, Arise

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• If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.” “No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings.” Christina pokes his arm. “Don’t you know your own faction?

  Veronica Roth

  Wings, Lines, Arms

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• Algunos príncipes, para mantener seguro el estado, han desarmado a sus súbditos, otros han mantenido a sus ciudades súbditas distraídas por las facciones... Nuestros antepasados, y aquellos que eran considerados sabios, solían decir que era necesario mantener Pistoia [una ciudad italiana] por facciones y Pisa por fortaleza, y con esta idea fomentaban las disputas en algunas de sus ciudades tributarias para mantener la posesión de ellas más fácilmente.

  Nicolás Maquiavelo

  Sabio, Italiano, Ciudades

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• Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

  Edward Gibbon

  People, Virtue, Monarchy

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus”, p.336, 谷月社

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• The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

  Voltaire

  Funny Friendship, Real, Self

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• This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

  Veronica Roth

  Teacher, Community, Leader

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

  George Ayittey

  People, Shooting, Way

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• Dejar el número de nacimientos sin restricciones, como se hace en la mayoría de los Estados, provoca inevitablemente la pobreza entre los ciudadanos, y la pobreza produce delincuencia y facciones.

  Aristotle

  Numbers, Political, Poverty

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• Se supone comúnmente que la uniformidad de una vida estudiosa no ofrece materia para la narración: pero la verdad es, que de la vida más estudiosa una gran parte pasa sin estudio. Un autor participa de la condición común de la humanidad; nace y se casa como cualquier otro hombre; tiene esperanzas y temores, expectativas y decepciones, penas y alegrías, y amigos y enemigos, como un cortesano o un estadista; y no puedo concebir por qué sus asuntos no deberían excitar la curiosidad tanto como el murmullo de un salón, o las facciones de un campamento.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Grief, Drawing

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.453

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• Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Sweet, Distance, Struggle

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• At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?

  David Sirota

  Powerful, War, Iraq

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• What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, What If, Irritating

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

  Rivka Galchen

  Crazy, Leader, Mind

  Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Party, Gay, Views

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• 

  Las facciones religiosas seguirán imponiendo su voluntad a los demás a menos que las personas decentes relacionadas con ellas reconozcan que la religión no tiene cabida en la política pública. Deben aprender a dar a conocer sus puntos de vista sin tratar de convertirlos en las únicas alternativas.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religión, Libertad, Opinión

  "Extractos de los comentarios de Goldwater". Comentarios en el Registro del Congreso, www.nytimes.com. 15 de septiembre de 1981.

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• La forma de ley que propongo sería la siguiente: En un estado que desea salvarse de la mayor de todas las plagas -no la facción, sino la distracción- no debería existir entre los ciudadanos ni pobreza extrema ni, de nuevo, riqueza excesiva, pues ambas son productivas de grandes males... . Ahora bien, el legislador debe determinar cuál debe ser el límite de la pobreza o de la riqueza.

  Plato

  Law, Evil, Would Be

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.269

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• Al igual que en las campañas militares, la guerra cultural siempre se decide por problemas pragmáticos de estrategia, organización y recursos. . . . Las facciones con las mejores estrategias, la organización más eficaz y el acceso a los recursos tendrán claramente la ventaja y, muy posiblemente, la victoria final.

  James Davison Hunter

  Militar, Organización, Victoria

  James Davison Hunter (1992). "Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America", p.64, Basic Books.

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Cheer, Volcanoes

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.417

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• The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Government, Years

  "Extractos de los comentarios de Goldwater". Comentarios en el Registro del Congreso, www.nytimes.com. 15 de septiembre de 1981.

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• Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to prevent disaster later.

  Richard M. Nixon

  País, Partido, Gente

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• [O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

  Fisher Ames

  Country, Government, Essence

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• Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

  Maya Angelou

  Uplifting, Flirting, Together

  "'The Welcome Table': Recipes from Maya Angelou". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. October 26, 2005.

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