„When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!“

— Jack Kerouac

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„In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.“
— Anaïs Nin
„Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.“
— Terry Pratchett
„When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„Blindness separates people from things;deafness separates people from people.“
— Helen Keller
„We said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.“
— Barack Obama