Separation Quotes - Page 27

• In a Christian Theocracy, you'll never be Christian enough. There's always going to be somebody there with another version of Christianity that is more Christian than you and you're going to lose the freedom to make the choice because you didn't defend the Separation of Church and State when you had the chance.

  David Silverman

  Christian, Choices, Church

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• Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.

  Edward Young

  Book, Years, Individuality

  Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.561

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• A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

  John Newton

  Friendship, Real, Space

  John Newton (2009). “廿一世纪完全作人原则: The English-Traditional Chinese Page to Page Correspondence Display Edition, Useful for Learning Chinese”, p.260, Nicer Century World Publishing

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• As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

  Steve McQueen

  Art, Filmmaking, Concerned

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.

  Ani DiFranco

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.

  William S. Burroughs

  Christian, Falling In Love, Sex

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• Differentiation is how ONE becomes many while remaining ONE. Differentiation is not separation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Differentiation

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• When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Distance, Mean, Self

  Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.81, Princeton Architectural Press

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• I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

  Alan Thicke

  Clever, Expectations, Degrees

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, People, Apathy

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• I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Museums, Two

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• God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.

  Mark Patinkin

  Children, Way, Easier

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• One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation - The house of reason is very far away!

  Kabir

  Light, House, World

  Kabir (2013). “Songs of Kabir”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

  Danny Glover

  War, Cities, Issues

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Loneliness, Mean, Animal

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Self, Lines

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• The fear of separation is all that unites.

  Antonio Porchia

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others

  Nilakanta Sri Ram

  Love Is, Grace, Development

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• America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.

  James Traficant

  America, Glue, Generations

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• There are a variety of reasons. Not all Western leaders are equal. We have to make a certain separation from naïve Americans and Europeans. These are two different categories. For the Europeans, it affects the image of the "New Europe." The false image of Europe is that it is peaceful, separate from the past. Now the image of the New Europe is a radically false image.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Past, Europe, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, America, Church

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

  Charles Simic

  Art, Found Objects, Sculpture

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• There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Divine Right, Mind, Companionship

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.57, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, America, Giving

  ABC TV Interview with Mike Wallace, www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption obscures reality without destroying it. All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false..Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time.The mind creates time and space and takes its own creations for reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Thinking, Reality

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