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• Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people

  Ron Holland

  Exercise, People, Voting

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• I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

  Wendy Davis

  Mom, Daughter, School

  "ABC’s Jeff Zeleny Conducts Puffy, Shoe-Focused Interview With Wendy Davis". Interview with Paul Bremmer, www.newsbusters.org. July 4, 2013.

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• I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

  Carol Leifer

  Mom, Mad, Desire

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• I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise, for the sake of cell phones and Jet Skis.

  George Carlin

  Country, Adventure, Thinking

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• I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Children, Divorce, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

  Melanie Griffith

  Falling In Love, Character, Eight

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• Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wisdom, Fun, Discipline

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.220, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Winning, Two

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “God's Grace to You”, p.7, Whitaker House

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• Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Years, Married, Sober

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• It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.

  Richie Benaud

  Numbers, Leaving, Feelings

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

  Benjamin Wiker

  World, Reason, Abstract

  Benjamin Wiker (2010). “10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor”, p.14, Regnery Publishing

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• You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Married, Sin, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1507, Barbour Publishing

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• The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Reason Why, Incarnation

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.81, SCM Press

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• A 99-year-old man is filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife, making them the world's oldest divorced couple. It's got to be weird when a divorce lawyer is fighting for your kids to get custody of you.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Couple, Kids, Divorce

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• Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.

  Marianne Williamson

  Couple, Sadness, People

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Children, Couple

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• It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage

  Laura M. Brotherson

  Soul, Growth, Easier

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• Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.

  Myrna Loy

  Children, Eggs, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Things In Life, Community

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• The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not.

  Nora Ephron

  Divorce, Long, Important

  "I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections". Book by Nora Ephron, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

  Bertrand Russell

  Flower, Cutting, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.36, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Appendix

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• Health can never be divorced from strength.

  George Hackenschmidt

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• Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

  John Henry Jowett

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Spiritual

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