Alan Greenspan

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

American Economist

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.

German Royalty

Joseph Jacobs

The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.

Australian Historian

Nostradamus

Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera's men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf.

French Celebrity

Astro Teller

There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.

English Scientist

Jodi Picoult

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

American Author

Glenn Danzig

There's all kinds of schisms in Satanism, but the thing I like about it is the quest for knowledge.

American Musician

Richard John Neuhaus

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

American Writer

Rory Kinnear

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.

English Actor

John Podhoretz

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Used metaphorically for any group separation, not just formal or religious splits.

Metaphorical Use

Often implies a negative outcome, such as conflict or a breakdown in relations.

Negative Connotation

Reflects non-physical divisions, doesn't mean a literal split or break of an object.

Not Physical

Often refers to specific historical splits in church history, understood within their context.

Historical Events

In a religious context, usually based on doctrinal disagreements, not personal disputes.

Doctrine Based

Suggests a lasting or permanent division within a religious community.

Permanent Change

 in fact there's a schism between what the developed countries believe and want and what emerging market countries want. Emerging market countries need to continue to create economic growth so that we don't have political uncertainty in the those countries. Developed countries recognize that they have a real, important responsibility

Economic growth has...

 what they do is they dress up as stuffed animals and entertain people at sporting events shortly after that I got invited to speak at the convention of the people who make balloon animals and again I couldn't go but it's a fascinating group they make balloon animals there's a big schism between the ones who make gospel

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 created an artificial schism between creation and execution as if you could actually create well without knowing how to execute an ism if you could actually execute without knowing how to create now something else happened and that's what we began to sell the world that architecture was created by individuals

Building a theater that...

 to speak at the convention of the people who make balloon animals. And again, I couldn't go. But it's a fascinating group. They make balloon animals. There is a big schism between the ones who make gospel animals and porn animals, but -- they do a lot of really cool stuff with balloons.

The tribes we lead PIPE...

 We actually created an artificial schism between creation and execution, as if you could actually create without knowing how to execute and as if you could actually execute without knowing how to create. Now, something else happened. And that's when we began to sell the world

Joshua Prince-Ramus:...

 that has emerged between developed and developing countries, and the ideological beliefs between political and economic rights. This schism has only grown wider. Today, many people who live in the emerging markets, where 90 percent of the world's population lives,

Dambisa Moyo: Is China...

 The schism that we each often have about what we crave and the actuality of our situation. Before shooting this series, I was also in love with two different people who knew about each other, being the object over which they fought.

Intimate photos of a...

 And so that's the reason for me, several years ago. Because I was tired of the racism, I was tired of discrimination, I was tired of the "-isms" and the schisms. I was just so tired. I was tired of the vicious cycle,

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 women all along in illinois so she ultimately refused and then and then managed to march with the illinois delegation anyway and that's just such an important metaphor for what that schism uh was like uh um

Black Women and the...

 special interest and some countries just take their path in other countries this is a conflict and where this conflict is causes a schism in the soul of the country so when we talk about a woman in

Schism

Metaphorical Use

Negative Connotation

Not Physical

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