quotes about Separation
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
-- Albert Camus -
To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
-- Albert Camus -
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 so contrived as to render the one independent of the other.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
-- Anais Nin -
Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
-- Anais Nin -
The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.
-- Anne Truitt -
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
-- Arlen Specter -
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When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
-- Arlen Specter -
There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
-- Ben Harper -
It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
-- Bob Kane -
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
-- Boy George -
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.
-- Carroll Quigley -
There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
-- Cate Blanchett -
I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.
-- Chita Rivera -
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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.
-- Christy Turlington -
From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.
-- Demian BichirSource : "Demian Bichir Talks A BETTER LIFE, Chris Weitz, Auditioning for TWILIGHT: NEW MOON, and More at SBIFF". Interview, collider.com. February 5, 2012.
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No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
-- Dorothy Height -
Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.
-- Downtown Julie BrownSource : "Julie Brown Finds New "Vague Celebrities" to Poke Fun At". Interview with Robyn Ross, www.tvguide.com. November 16, 2010.
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You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.
-- Duane G. Carey -
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
-- Earl Warren -
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I believe in the separation of church and planet.
-- Eric IdleSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?
-- Gabrielle HamiltonSource : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.189, Random House
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The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
-- George H. Mead -
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And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.
-- George Pataki -
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
-- Henry Moore -
We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.
-- Hu Jintao -
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of the others.
-- James Madison -
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Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.
-- Jason Mraz -
From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.
-- Jean Charest -
Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.
-- Jennifer CapriatiSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.
-- John M SwomleySource : John M. Swomley (1968). “Religion, the State & the Schools”, New York : Pegasus
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The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.
-- John Randolph PriceSource : John Randolph Price (1985). “Practical Spirituality”
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Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.
-- Josephine Lawrence -
There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.
-- Joy Harjo -
There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.
-- Judith Viorst -
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When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
-- Keith Jarrett -
There shouldn't be a separation of any religion in any way. Unfortunately, through the centuries there have been problems from the "My God is better than your God" mentality.
-- Kevin SorboSource : "Kevin Sorbo on playing John Calvin in “Let the Lion Roar,” plans for a “God’s Not Dead” sequel and his support of the “Gosnell” movie". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
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"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."
-- Leo Tolstoy -
I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.
-- Loretta YoungSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
-- Louis Garrel -
The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.
-- Louis Pasteur -
Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.
-- Macklemore -
They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.
-- Margaret KennedySource : Margaret Kennedy (2011). “Lucy Carmichael”, p.8, Faber & Faber
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What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?
-- Marilyn FryeSource : Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated
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I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with.
-- Martha Stewart -
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
-- Maximilien Robespierre -
Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
-- Michael K. Powell -
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Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.
-- Nancy Friday -
Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords
-- Naz?m Hikmet -
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
-- Neville Marriner -
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender
-- Ntozake ShangeSource : Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
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Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.
-- Paula Gunn Allen -
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.
-- Pete McCloskey -
Separation is The Only Disease, It is The Cause—Everything Else is The Effect!
-- Ralph Smart -
Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.
-- Ramesh S Balsekar -
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What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness - where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside - to cosmic consciousness, which is in total harmony with the universe and where none of those feelings exist, then anything is possible.
-- Rhonda Byrne -
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.
-- Ricardo Lagos -
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
-- Rick Warren -
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Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.
-- Rick Wright -
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
-- Robert BorkSource : Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
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But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
-- Robert E. Lee -
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I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
-- Sachin Tendulkar -
An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust ...
-- Sarah Moore GrimkeSource : Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimké (1998). “The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké”, p.90, Oxford University Press on Demand
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When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
-- Sergio Aragones -
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
-- Simone Weil -
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All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one...
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj -
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.
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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
-- Stevie SmithSource : Stevie Smith (1937). “A Good Time was Had by All”
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Art is … a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.
-- Sufjan Stevens -
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I'm an animal with you," he murmured. "I want to mark you. I want to possess you so completely there's no separation between us.
-- Sylvia DaySource : FaceBook post by Sylvia Day from Apr 28, 2012
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Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.
-- Tennessee Williams -
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
-- Thomas Paine -
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
-- Timothy Keller -
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Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.
-- Toni PackerSource : Toni Packer (1995). “The Work of This Moment”, Tuttle Publishing
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Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
-- W. H. Auden -
In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
-- Wasif Ali Wasif -
...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
-- Werner Heisenberg -
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The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history.
-- William Rehnquist -
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
-- William Strunk, Jr. -
Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieveÂments. These alone count in life.
-- Yoshida ShoinSource : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. II, 1938.
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There's a separation of church and state. If you want the perks that churches have traditionally received, then abide by the rules. If you're going to be involved in the political process, even in soft ways, then surrender the privileges. Let ministers pay income tax on all of their income. Let churches pay income tax, let them pay property taxes. They can't have it both ways. You can't pat the politicians on the back, break the rules, and then get all these perks.
-- Anthony B PinnSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?
-- Christine O'DonnellSource : "Media Twist O’Donnell-Coons Exchange on Church and State". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. October 19, 2010.
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God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.
-- Mark Patinkin -
Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.
-- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal -
I didn't understand the concept that there's a state that won't allow its people to leave or come back whenever they want to, by saying, "It's because we love you." And I never get that - I still don't get that concept. I thought, that's very threatening, and I don't get why you would want to make this experiment with Germany separation.
-- Nina Hoss -
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I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.
-- Blake Judd -
Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.
-- Agapi Stassinopoulos -
A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know and understand. A final understanding could probably only begin upon permanent separation, or death. This is why we come back to certain poems, as we do to places or people, to experience and re-experience, to see ourselves for who we truly are, and to continue to be changed.
-- Matthew ZapruderSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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Putin discovered that when he invaded Ukraine, he expected the Ukrainians to rise up and join him and say, "Yes, we want to be part of Russia," and that didn't happen. And they've been paying, actually, I think quite a high price for it, both in the ongoing war in Ukraine - which is I think increasingly unpopular in Russia - and also in the Western sanctions, and in general, the separation from the West that was caused by that.
-- Anne ApplebaumSource : Source: www.politico.com
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There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.
-- David Barton -
I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.
-- Sam HamillSource : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
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The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence also it is called "daring." For when the monad manifests unification, the dyad steals in and manifests separation.
-- IamblichusSource : "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield: "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.
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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
-- Ken Thompson -