Separating Quotes

• Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

  Millard Fillmore

  Church, Facts, Separation

  Millard Fillmore (1856). “The Ovation to Mr. Fillmore. Speeches of Mr. Fillmore”, p.2

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  School, Forever, Political

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.

  Millard Fillmore

  Views, Presidential, Political

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• True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Adversity, Gods Will, True Peace

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• In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Inspiring, Heart, Divorce

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• It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that maybe it had ruined my life, in a kind of quiet way--a little lie, probably not so vital, insidiously separating me from everyone I loved.

  Dan Chaon

  Lying, Littles, Way

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.184, Ballantine Books

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• We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

  Keke Palmer

  Dark, Light, Needs

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

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• Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fear, Lines, Terrible

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.188, Vintage

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  I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Romantic, Issues

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• When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

  Matsuo Basho

  Writing, Positivity, Hair

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• The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Distance, Differences

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• I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feelings save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution, cutting us off at both ends.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Country, Memories

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.80, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.

  John Locke

  Real, Simple, Views

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• this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.

  David Levithan

  Break Up, Two, People

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• It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

  John Irving

  Children, Couple, Divorce

  "A Widow for One Year". Book by John Irving, May 5, 1998.

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• I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Space, Adrift

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 15, 2014

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• I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more, I guess. It involves separating life, breaking off this chunk that's devoted to making something. There's a lot of pleasure in that, but there can also be a lot of struggle. There's always this fantasy that you could just live life and not have to think about it.

  Moyra Davey

  Struggle, Live Life, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Fear, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Ideas, Geek, Aliens

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• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Father, Boys

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• It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

  Annie Dillard

  Birthday, Self, Ironic

  1974 Of self-consciousness. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.6.

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• One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

  Benjamin Carson

  Cutting, Trying, Wire

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