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• In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.

  George Greer

  Integrity, Emotional, Drug

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• The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Character, Justice

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it nevertheless be possible to understand one another? Is real communication possible if word and language betray us every time? Shall, in the end, only the language of tanks and guns prevail and not human reason and understanding?

  Joost Meerloo

  Time, Real, Communication

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• There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.

  Oscar Micheaux

  Success, Perseverance, Diligence

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• I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.

  Amanda McKerrow

  Dance, Mean, Voice

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• Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

  Roger Wicker

  Mean, Agency, Law

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• And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

  John W. Snow

  Growth, Steps, Partners

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Love has no conditions. When we put conditions, when we put barriers and boundaries, then we lose love. Love is condition-less. Love is barrier-less. Look at the moon, sun, stars, trees. . . they are just on for everyone. When our love also flows for everyone, you become very natural.

  Chidanand Saraswati

  Love, Stars, Moon

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• We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

  Joe Slovo

  White, Important, Overcoming

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• Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.

  Darrell Bock

  Giving, Adoption, Spirit

  Darrell Bock (2010). “Recovering the Real Lost Gospel”, p.19, B&H Publishing Group

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• I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

  James Lane Allen

  Power, Men, Weak Man

  James Lane Allen (2005). “The Choir Invisible”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

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• "Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

  Samuel Smiles

  Thinking, Achievement, Able

  Samuel Smiles (2017). “Self-Help: The Original Guide to Bootstrapping Your Success”, p.198, Courier Dover Publications

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• The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self, Achievement, Feelings

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it.

  Robert McKee

  Inspiration, Creativity, Circles

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• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we love there are no barriers, no desires, no needs, no wants.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Desire, Needs

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• Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.

  Edith Hamilton

  Pain, Remembrance, Suffering

  EDITH HAMILTON (1958). “THE GREEK WAY”

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• Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.

  Ursula Burns

  Believe, Achieve, Empowered

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• One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Destiny, Israel, Middle East

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• It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

  Tadeusz Kantor

  Men, Opposites, Acting

  Tadeusz Kantor (1993). “A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

  Lisi Harrison

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Burritos

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• Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

  A. R. Rahman

  Mother, Different, Culture

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• The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

  Dexter Filkins

  Ignorance, Army, Years

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• I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

  Kelly Slater

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.

  Andy Bechtolsheim

  Winning, Long, Economics

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