Separation Quotes - Page 14

• And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

  George Pataki

  Democracy, Frustrating, Inherent

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• Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

  Sean Penn

  Sacrifice, Medicine, Soldier

  Open Letter to the President George W. Bush, www.snopes.com. November 3, 2002.

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• The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

  Dennis Prager

  Men, Essence, Life And Death

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• Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Animal, Two

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• I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Keeping Secrets, Perception

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• In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Teaching, Ignorance

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• Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

  Simon Sinek

  Children, Leader, Parent

  "The Paradoxes Of Leadership" by Simon Sinek, www.askmen.com.

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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

  Church, Doctrine, States

  "Joining Race, Specter Attacks the Right" by Richard L. Berke, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 1995.

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• 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

  Judging, Doe, Court

  "Specter: 'I'm pro-choice ... But I don't make the decisions'". "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", www.cnn.com. November 9, 2004.

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• I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

  Cat Stevens

  Media, Issues, Islam

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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

  Long, Identity, Cricket

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• I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Church, States

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• Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

  Paul Wellstone

  Integrity, Inspiration, Character

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• If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Relationship, Romantic

  "Fictional character: Christopher Robin". "Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

  W. S. Merwin

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  William Stanley Merwin, “Separation”

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• It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.

  Richard Bach

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

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• The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Stress, Integrity, Divorce

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.155, Harmony

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• They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.624, Penguin UK

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• Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Music, Together, Body

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• Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Wall, Rights

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• The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

  George A. Sheehan

  Pain, Distance, Healing

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Friendship, Doe

  "Memoirs".

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• Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Evil, Forever, Deceit

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• Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Motorcycle, Finals, Maintenance

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• If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Believe, People, Circumstances

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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