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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body."

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Selwyn Hughes Author
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"Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated."

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Theresa May Politician
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"Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness."

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Scott Walker Politician
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"Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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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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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow."

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