Separation Quotes - Page 35

• It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

  James Monroe

  Exercise, People, Ignorant

  James Monroe, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe) (1969). “James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

  Roy Moore

  Men, Balance, Constitution

  "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview With Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. December 16, 2002.

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• The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Independent, Organization, Fists

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• I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Believe, Ideas

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Editors, Wheat

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• The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Evil, Left Behind

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

  Jacki Weaver

  Song, America, Play

  "Jacki Weaver Interview ANIMAL KINGDOM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.

  George Will

  School, Cutting, Thinking

  "George Will Compares This Budget Deadlock To Past Conflicts". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 9, 2013.

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• There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Writing, Self, Literature

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Time, Female, Revolution

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.113, Oxford University Press

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• Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

  Rick Wright

  Marriage, Trials, Permanent

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• There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, Interesting, Elysium

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

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• The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Political, Triumph

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• If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

  Karl Marx

  Money, Men, Ties

  Karl Marx, Martin Milligan (1974). “Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844”

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• If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.

  Miranda July

  Stars, Light, Years

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Passion, Night, Hands

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

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• This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

  George Carlin

  Art, Prayer, Father

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• I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.

  Steven Pressfield

  Betrayal, War, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2010). “Gates Of Fire”, p.29, Random House

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• The final flight make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive.

  Rumi

  Home, Journey, Wings

  "The Spiritual Poems of Rumi".

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• Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Connections, Culture

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• Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Veils, Splits

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 26, 2016

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• Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

  Ian Caldwell

  Lonely, Distance, Years

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• Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.

  Sylvia Plath

  Crush, Girl, Kissing

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• But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

  Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations, Done, May

  Charles Dickens (2010). “Pip and the Zombies”, p.192, Lulu.com

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• To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Farewell, Men, Play

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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