#separates

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. ↗

— Voltaire

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We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ↗

— Simone Weil

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The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. ↗

— Rosalyn S. Yalow

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