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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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• 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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• As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

  Red Smith

  Baseball, Texas, Firsts

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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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• The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

  Aaron Levie

  Entry, Products, Consistently

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2013

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• It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

  E. M. Forster

  Differences, Making A Difference, Fence

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.427, Delphi Classics

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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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• As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  War, Fierce, Source

  Muriel Rukeyser, Janet E. Kaufman, Anne F. Herzog, Jan Heller Levi (2005). “The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

  Louise Hay

  Teacher, Block, Moving

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “Meditations to Heal Your Life”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Desire, Wish

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in such a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any direction. It is the experience of being caged in: all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or booby trapped.

  Marilyn Frye

  People, Way, Life Is

  Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated

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• No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

  E. O. Wilson

  Hunters, World, Poet

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• The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.

  Dick Costolo

  Funny, Zero, Thoughtful

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• The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

  Edmund Leach

  Men, Creating, Forever

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• One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

  Roald Hoffmann

  One Day, Molecules, Rotation

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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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• Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

  Caterina Fake

  Fun, Ideas, People

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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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• 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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