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• There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Plato, Men, Average

  Walter Kaufmann (2008). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”, p.151, Princeton University Press

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• The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

  Chris Chocola

  Wall, Agency, Law

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• The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

  Harry Callahan

  Writing, Average, Differences

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• To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Mean

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.152, Macmillan

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• The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Years, Fifty

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Games, Slave Ships, People

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• The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.

  Jon Miller

  Leadership, Wall, Numbers

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• Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of infinite possibilities separating man and his potential. We had four miles and the best competition in the nation. We linked hands in the boat and committed ourselves to each other.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Drama, Men, Hands

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• Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Sports, Men, Discrimination

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• I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.

  Lois Lowry

  Home, Salmon, Riding

  Lois Lowry (2011). “The Giver (illustrated; gift edition)”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!

  Henry Ford

  Believe, Successful, Differences

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• A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, War, Class

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• This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Wall, Mean, Fighting

  Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates”, p.150, Verso

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• You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. She didn't know at twenty-three.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Love, Lying, Team

  Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.201, St. Martin's Press

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• Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.

  Paul Newman

  Husband, Should Have, Breathing

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

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• If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic, and cultural condition in which the three had to operate. In other words, they resulted from tactical adaptation of the same philosophy of government to local circumstances, not from different philosophies.

  Richard Pipes

  Philosophy, Government, Differences

  "Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime". Book by Richard Pipes, 1993.

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• Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Differences, Bob

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

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• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

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• NOTHING SHOULD BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED IN 'EVERYONE ELSE,' WHICH IS AT ONCE LAID-BACK AND RIGOROUSAbout the world we create when we fall in love, and how we navigate the space between us and that separating us from everyone else.

  Manohla Dargis

  Falling In Love, Taken, Space

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• Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rights, Two Nations, History

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.28, University of Georgia Press

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• It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Years

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• When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

  Laozi

  Animal, Intelligent, Soul

  Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

  Simone Weil

  Stress, Writing, Biographies

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• Animals have their tragic and their comic side, and resemble us in many ways. They, too, have their distinctions and individualities. Many people believe that there is a huge gap separating them from the animals, but it is only really a step in the Wheel of Life, for we are all children of the One. To understand a fellow creature, we must regard him as a brother.

  Manfred Kyber

  Brother, Children, Believe

  Manfred Kyber (1967). “Among animals: the collected animal stories”

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• The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Thinking, Islands, Sea

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