An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Separate Peace, A by John Knowles

In each separate thing that you do consider the matters which come first, and those which follow after, and only then approach the thing itself.

Anyone who perceives my message as anti-police is completely mistaken. I have so much admiration and respect for officers and the families of officers who sacrifice themselves to keep us safe. But let's be clear: I am against police brutality and injustice. Those are two separate things.