Barriers Quotes - Page 35

• Most countries want to bring their people together and tear down physical, commercial and cultural barriers. Anyone who proposes separating them is out of line.

  Ruben Aguilar

  Country, People, Tears

  "The Situation with Tucker Carlson". "The Ed Show", www.nbcnews.com. May 18, 2006.

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• All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.

  Denis Diderot

  Running, Art, Giving

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• We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

  Charles A. Murray

  Poverty, Poor, Traps

  Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.9, Basic Books

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• We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.

  Owen D. Young

  Years, Two, Trying

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• It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

  Newt Gingrich

  Father, Squares, Founding

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• I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Wall, Thinking, Space

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.

  P. W. Singer

  Daughter, War, Son

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

  Edwin Catmull

  Awkward, Working Together, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.

  Arnold Kling

  Government, Bumps, Speed

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• This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Drama, Different, Cinema

  "Cannes 2012: Holy Motors - review" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2012.

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• A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.

  Reuel Howe

  Communication, Meetings

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• We know that expanded access to natural gas is important to families and businesses in communities across Ontario. That's why our government is developing new natural gas programs to improve access, which will generate economic activity, attract significant investment, create jobs, and break down barriers in our communities

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Government, Community

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• ... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Spiritual, Lonely, Business

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• I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, House, Maps

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'

  Dave Grohl

  Queens, Gone, Band

  "Dave Grohl: How To Make An Arena Feel Like A Punk Club". Interview with Jacob Ganz, www.npr.org. April 07, 2011.

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• ....If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Children, Silence, Towers

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.85, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

  Carl Rogers

  Loneliness, Self, Uniting

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• When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Perfect, You Think You Know

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.203, Penguin

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• The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.

  George Foreman

  Recovery, Class, Views

  George Foreman, Ken Abraham (2007). “God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.180, Thomas Nelson

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• As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from the ice. Not just mammoth, but all kinds of fossils from the past. What occurred to me was, had anyone tried to pinpoint the first case of human-induced extinction? What was the first time we as species pushed another one to oblivion? I would argue that's probably going to be one of the defining moral problems of the century, human-induced extinction. And I really wanted to know, when did we first cross that barrier?

  Dario Robleto

  Past, Ice, Becoming

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of their traditionally powerful societies.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Powerful, America, Assumption

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The thing is, people don't understand that girls right now are being forced to have to pick one or the other. You are being forced to have to choose wrestling or an education. I got a scholarship going to school in Canada, but it was pretty expensive because I was an international student. And so for some girls right now, they don't have the means or the opportunities to do both. A lot of girls are obviously choosing an education because you need a future and a career and everything, and wrestling can't promise everyone that. I think that's a huge barrier.

  Helen Maroulis

  Girl, Wrestling, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from the same cultural, ethnic, or religious background as the subjects they portray in order to be qualified to portray those subjects. I believe that compassion and empathy should cross all of those category barriers, and the conversations art creates can be inflammatory initially, but I think are most often constructive and healing in the long run.

  Shepard Fairey

  Running, Religious, Art

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I knew that the black struggle wasn't my struggle. But I felt like it was my-struggle-adjacent, you know? I've always said that if you turn the dial in one direction, a Muslim is a Jew is an East Asian person is a Native American and so on. I feel very much that all of these struggles are kind of the same and - Hillary Clinton actually said this recently - when you get rid of one barrier, it opens up the gates for a whole bunch of people you didn't even know would benefit from it. So not fighting for the black struggle is like not fighting for the Muslim struggle.

  Negin Farsad

  Struggle, Native American, Fighting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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