Block Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Melting Away, Ice, Life Is Like

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Sneakers, Sides, Steps

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• I really do believe that the basic principle that Americans have the right to know what they're buying when they buy it is going to be something that spreads across this country very quickly, and that the food manufacturers would be wise to be leaders instead of trying to block this with lawsuits and other ways of trying to get their way.

  Peter Shumlin

  Wise, Country, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out,
  and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened,
  can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lying, Doors, Trying

  Alice Hoffman (2002). “Blue Diary”, p.147, Penguin

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• The building block of every community is family.

  Paul Singer

  Community, Building, Building Blocks

  "Marriage Equality Honors for Boies, Olson, Singer: Scene" by Amanda Gordon, www.bloomberg.com. February 25, 2014.

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• Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.

  Judith Krug

  Children, Hair, Looks

  "Preventing Kids From Seeing Illegal Smut Is Not Unconstitutional; It's Common Sense" by Janet M. LaRue, Senior Director of Legal Studies at the Family Research Council, "National Policy Center: Idea House", 2001.

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• In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

  Dream, Night, Light

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• I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!

  Edward Leedskalnin

  Pyramids, Secret, Tools

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• Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Education, Children, Kids

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• I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.

  Erin Heatherton

  Sports, Exercise, Everyday

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Appreciation, Book

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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• Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Games, Hitting

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• Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus to invite inspiration...Inspiration is a sensation in the body. It can be invited upon your will and willingness to experience it taking you over.

  Marjo-Riikka Makela

  Inspiration, Focus, Acting

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• The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say: The shirt that you brought in is virtually done. It means it is not done, in the same way that the virtual community is not a community. There is no commitment there. When you log off, you are not a member of it anymore. My flesh and blood community, the sense of knowing my neighbor, knowing the guy across the street, having dinner with the people down the block, getting along with each other and making compromises, that's a genuine community with a commitment.

  Clifford Stoll

  Mean, Commitment, Knowing

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• I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.

  John Nettles

  Giving, Wife, Frost

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The moment when I can see a student's block, name the challenge and watch them become fuller and more dynamic in front of their colleagues' eyes is as rich a moment in a boardroom as it is in a ring.

  Jeff Raz

  Eye, Names, Challenges

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• ...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Military, Technology, Democracy

  K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of creation”, Anchor Books

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• Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

  Julia Cameron

  Building, Building Blocks

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.218, Souvenir Press

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• Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Passion, Successful, Creative

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• Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

  Robin Sharma

  Giving, Stones, Stumbling

  Robin Sharma (2005). “Family Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.25, Jaico Publishing House

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• Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.

  Peter George Peterson

  Hate, Cutting, Republican

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• I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

  Nate Berkus

  Kids, Thinking, Furniture

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• As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.

  Nate Berkus

  Kids, Thinking, House

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• People move into a house a block down the road. You know who`s going in. You can see and you report them to the local police. Everybody`s their own cop in a way. You got to do it.

  Donald Trump

  Moving, People, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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