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• By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

  Blaze Starr

  Girl, Mother, Religious

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• Harnessing e-governance moves the access to governance from long queues at offices to any internet point. In Gujarat, our UN awarded widely acclaimed SWAGAT e-governance system ensures that long-term grievances are resolved through use of online applications and video-conferencing across all district and block offices.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Long, Office

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• I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong.

  Peter King

  Spiritual, Country, Zero

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• The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.

  John Piper

  Distance, Years, Long

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• Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.

  Peter Atkins

  Stars, Elements, Matter

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• I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

  Dean Young

  Believe, Writing, May

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• The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Children

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• How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

  Michael Moore

  Zero, Mcdonalds, Two

  "Michael Moore: Ground Zero McDonald's Killed More People Than 9/11 Hijackers" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2010.

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• My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

  Mary Garden

  Kind, Illness, Excuse

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• In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

  Richard Powers

  Writing, Years, Novel

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• For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

  Mary Garden

  Years, Long, Periods

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• One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work.

  James Redfield

  Running, Teacher, Wall

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• When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.

  John Trudell

  Wall, Stress, Believe

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.

  Philippe Petit

  Air, Safety, Wire

  Source: collider.com

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• Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Sweat, Two

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

  Emily Yoffe

  Fall, Men, Email

  "Advice from Slate's 'Dear Prudence'". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.

  Suge Knight

  Song, Rapper, People

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• Failure is a few Errors in judgment repeated everyday. The man says, Well I didn't walk around the block today and it didn't kill me, so it must be okay. No, no, it is that kind of error in judgment that after six years has him out of breath and panting as he walks from his car to his office. You can't make those kinds of mistakes; it will end up costing you.

  Jim Rohn

  Mistake, Men, Errors

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• Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

  Nelson Mandela

  Flower, Brutality, Bullets

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• Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Technology, Apples

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• The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.

  Robert Conquest

  Country, Ideas, Effort

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• What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Soul, Victory, Stones

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.10

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• I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm going to get through. It's just a matter of finding a way.

  Elmore Leonard

  Believe, Littles, Matter

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• The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.

  Oliver DeMille

  Government, Growth, Regulation

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• I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

  Jane Roberts

  Sidewalk, Secure, My Own

  Jane Roberts (2013). “The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two: A Seth Book in Two Volumes”, p.477, Amber-Allen Publishing

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