Russell Wilson
American Football Player
"Separation comes from preparation."
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Separation
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Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
""A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.""
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Playwright, Poet
"To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely."
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"I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers."
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"If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate."
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"Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome."
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"There is no separation between being and the manifested world, between the manifested and the unmanifested. But the unmanifested is so much vaster, deeper, and greater than what happens in the manifested."
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"My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam."
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"The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use."
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"There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America."
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"They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation."
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"We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything."
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"I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different."
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"When we separate music from life we get is art."
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"I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world."
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"You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else."
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"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."
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"Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation."
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"Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time."
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"Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation."
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"To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation."
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"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
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"The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation."
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