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• When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Mother, Energy, Firsts

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• Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

  Steve Martin

  Winning, Years, Hot

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• The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

  Morgan Freeman

  White, Kansas, America

  "Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2012.

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• I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Other Cultures, Clothes

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• Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Roots

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.33, Knopf

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• It is actually quite exciting when you're flying headfirst into a barrier — the initial part, the initial part is actually quite fun, especially when you hit the gravel trap and you get some air, and then you see it coming and you think 'erk — it's gonna hurt!'

  Lewis Hamilton

  Hurt, Fun, Thinking

  "Top Gear" with Richard Hammond, December 02, 2007.

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• I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.

  Twiggy

  Trying, Males, Female

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• The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing capacity to judge, to criticize, and to bring tremendous harm to ourselves. If we can harden our heart against ourselves and meet our most tender feelings with anger and condemnation, we simultaneously armor our heart against the possibility of gentleness, love and healing.

  Wayne Muller

  Children, Pain, Healing

  Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.

  Fay Chung

  Differences, Important, Overcoming

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• Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.

  John Burnside

  Philosophical, Ideas, Interesting

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• Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Hope, Fear

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Presidential address: State of the Union, Monday, January 25, 1988”

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• That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Peace, Abuse, Tendencies

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• We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices, and in the event of peace on terms which have been contemplated by some powers we shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada and add to the Empire of liberty an extensive and fertile Country thereby converting dangerous Enemies into valuable friends.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Struggle, Sacrifice

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to George Rogers Clark, founders.archives.gov. December 25, 1780.

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• Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no more equipment than they can carry on their backs. When pressed, they babble about snakes or bears or even, by God, bandits. But the real barrier, I'm sure, is the unknown.

  Colin Fletcher

  Real, Sleep, Snakes

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• When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Two, Mirrors

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• The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Inspiration

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• We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force.

  Betty Williams

  Hard Work, Soul, World

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

  Greg Bear

  Philosophy, Organization, Political

  Greg Bear (2016). “Far Thoughts and Pale Gods”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.

  William J. Clinton

  Successful, Giving, Tears

  Clinton, William J (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.1412, Best Books on

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• We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Race, Class

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• Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some of the barriers to full participation in the American dream. And the next great barrier standing before our generation is the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, Sex, Couple

  "Bloomberg blasts gay marriage ban while in N.C." by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. May 13, 2012.

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• The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

  Kenneth Clark

  Luxury, America, Justice

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.61, Wesleyan University Press

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• Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.

  Gautama Buddha

  Faith, Determination, Wish

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• When the time comes, the journey toward the brilliant white light that marks the barrier between this world and the next will not hold as much fear as it once would have. For in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life.

  Dolores Cannon

  Journey, White, Light

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• The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

  Adyashanti

  Awakening, Belief

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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