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Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. -- George Gaylord Simpson
Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. -- Jimmy Greaves
The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up. -- Greta Scacchi
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. -- Mary Douglas
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off. -- Mary Douglas
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. -- Vittorio Gassman
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets. -- Pieter Zeeman
We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. -- Paul McCartney
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into! -- Agnetha Faltskog
The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us. -- Quentin Reynolds
The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think. -- Albert Einstein
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. -- Frederick Lenz
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. -- J.R. Ward
We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries. -- Alan Dean Foster
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba. -- Julia Child
Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce and thought of elevating wings into a specialty? -- Calvin Trillin
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree. -- Hugh Everett III
I am happy when I am on stage. I like that wave of blue. I like the eardrum splitting sounds of loud screams. I like to be able to breathe along with the members. Each and every stage is a good reminiscence and a happy memory -- Leeteuk
No matter what happened to any individual person, life was going on elsewhere. The first time Kennedy kissed me, it stood to reason that at the same time, other people were splitting up. And the night Kennedy broke my heart, somewhere--maybe right there in my dorm, other people were falling in love. -- Tammara Webber
It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom. -- Karl Marx
The impressionistic method leads into a complete splitting and dissolution of all areas involved in the composition, and color is used to create an overall effect of light. The color is, through such a shading down from the highest light in the deepest shadows, sacrified an degraded to a (black-and-white) function. This leads to the destructions of the color as color. -- Hans Hofmann
I am not interested in splitting the white vote. -- Harold Washington
We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people. -- Boomer Esiason
I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other. -- Linus Torvalds
The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites. -- Shawn Amos
Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart. -- Clare Bowen
The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen. -- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy. -- Irene Rosenfeld
Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them. -- Queen Latifah
There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play. -- John Bonham
A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems. -- Steve Winwood
How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again! -- Brad Pitt
I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it's a good song and it works on the album. -- Joe Jonas
It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up. -- Neil Peart
I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for. -- Wendy Davis
To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself. -- Conor Oberst
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich. -- Mark Pagel
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart. -- Fionnula Flanagan
You're splitting?" "No sh*it, Sherlock. -- Scott Westerfeld
Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting. -- Karl Kraus
My wife always has a splitting archetype whenever I want to have sex. -- Bill Maher
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps -- Karl Marx
Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman. -- Will Rogers
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. -- Frederick Lenz
I have seen many educated persons splitting garbage over roads and many uneducated persons cleaning it. -- Rumman Bin Sadiq
Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all. -- Quinton Skinner
In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful. -- Christine Benvenuto
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting. -- Ellen Glasgow
Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention. -- Tamra Davis
There's no mystery to integrity. There's no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows. -- John de Ruiter
Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory. -- Henry David Thoreau
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. -- Benjamin Franklin
The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat. -- Justin Cronin
We both [me and Andrew Ridgeley ] knew that splitting up was the right thing to do, and there was no animosity between us at all. -- George Michael
We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains -- Martin Gardner
The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream. -- Cyril Connolly
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life. -- Marya Mannes
Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever. -- Paul Celan
The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen. -- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses) to bid for work. -- Margaret Hodge
If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin. -- C.G. Jung
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being ... -- R. D. Laing
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium. -- Milan Kundera
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights. -- Dick Durbin
But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping. -- Ann Voskamp
I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left. -- Tony Blair
There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle. -- Sam Smith
The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act. -- Joseph Crowley
You have to strike the deals, and they have an interest in them. With a revenue share model where you're already splitting with the studios, you have to do something with Fandango and so on. -- Gerry Lopez
Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side. -- Cassandra Clare

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