#separation

The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#blocs #city #europe #ever #feature

Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died long ago. Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claimed me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#separation #death

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

#always #appointed #court #decide #enough

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry. ↗

— Duncan Hunter

#any #delay #entry #fences #nation

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. ↗

— Akhenaton

#first #first thing #flesh #garment #honor

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#doubtless #his #lasting #lasting peace #man

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#america #church #good #good thing #i

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#absence #affection #after #away #been

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#bring #insights #new #politics #reject

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers. ↗

— George Pataki

#frustrating #inherent #our #part #parts