Separation Quotes - Page 15

• Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims

  James Q. Wilson

  Peace, Struggle, People

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• I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

  Jim Wallis

  Religious, Believe, Church

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• When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is fulfilled; and union follows. And when union is attained, the lover knows that he himself was all along the Beloved whom he loved and desired union with; and that all the impossible situations that he overcame were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path to himself. To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

  Meher Baba

  Impossible Situations, Purpose, Unions

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• I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.

  Archie Shepp

  Father, Kids, Race

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• Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

  Don Baylor

  Texas, People, Everyday

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• The single most prevalent form of child abuse in this country is the act of sending a child to a government school. We worry incessantly about the separation of church and state. We would do well to devote half as much attention to the separation of government and education.

  Neal Boortz

  Country, Children, School

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• I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with.

  Martha Stewart

  Divorce, Names, Approach

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• When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from a state of death - hopeless separation from God - to a state of everlasting life through the forgiveness of sin, based on the merits of Christ Jesus who died and rose again. Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.

  David Jeremiah

  Jesus, People, Rose

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• I believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage where vows are broken, our rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them. These constitutional violations have increased independent of whether there's been a Democrat-controlled Washington or a Republican-controlled Washington.

  Walter E. Williams

  Believe, Independent, Rights

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.37, Hoover Institution Press

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• It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Degrees, Six Degrees Of Separation, Six

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• The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

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• War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements.  There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity.  The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment.  Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Hunger Poverty, People

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• Placing "amicable" and "separation" together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Sight, Agony, Together

  "Should I stay friends with my ex?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2013.

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• I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Sex, Hate, Men

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• Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

  Bruce Mau

  Design, Trying, Shy

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• But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Years, Law, People

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• So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

  Michael K. Powell

  Beauty, Communication, Technology

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• Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

  Roy Moore

  Government, Church, States

  Interview with Gwen Ifill on "PBS Flashpoints USA" (2004), as quoted in "Here Are Some Pretty Wild Things Roy Moore Has Said Over The Years" by Joanna Purpich, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2017.

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• It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

  Roy Moore

  Relationship, Government, Church

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

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• Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

  Blythe Danner

  Profound, Important, Acting

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• As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Brother, Children, Home

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• The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.

  Hakim Bey

  Religious, Media, World

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• What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Men, Secret

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• I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

  Rumi

  Pain, Heart, Splits

  "Rumi And His Sufi Path Of Love". Book by Faith Citlak, 2007.

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• Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Karma, Men, Self

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 5), 1961.

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