It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the Five Fundamental Elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space) were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning. If any person or thing has one of the three character-traits (balanced, passionate, dull) predominant in the makeup, we denote him as having that trait.
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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Nothing separates the generations more than musicthe time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
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I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use
language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be.
But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We
aren't afraid of vaccuum cleaners.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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It's a very fine line that separates first class from half assed.
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Peace is never a wall that separates, it is a bridge which unites.
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Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
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Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
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The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
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It's sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone.
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