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• Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

  Mother Teresa

  Failure, Expansion, Path

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• Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Design, Progress, Trying

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• But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

  Aeschylus

  Fate, Blow, Hammers

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.370

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• When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.

  Adam Leipzig

  Space, Doubt, Needs

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• I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block... It is the ultimate ideal.

  Shiko Munakata

  Reality, Way, Flow

  Shikō Munakata (1991). “The Woodblock and the Artist: The Life and Work of Shiko Munakata”

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• I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will ever know peace. Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place.

  Shirley Temple

  Country, Moving, Optimistic

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• In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.

  Jacques Maritain

  Philosophy, Hands, Facts

  Jacques Maritain (1955). “An essay on Christian philosophy”

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• One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.

  Christopher Alexander

  Thinking, Giving, Fabric

  "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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• The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Support, Age

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ?

  Camille Paglia

  Moving, Men, Emotional

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.

  Edward Albee

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Attention

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• If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends are rare, and if you find such a friend, value them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Mind

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• The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Secret, World

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• The abuse of cabmen in a block.

  Juvenal

  Abuse

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• In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Lying, Average, Years

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• I've learned what Trump has taught - we need to put our best foot forward and don't let anybody block us from anything that we wish to do or want to do.

  LaToya Jackson

  Feet, Wish, Needs

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: saseye.com

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• No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Morning, Ice, Savages

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• Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Writing, Excuse, Phony

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. January 6, 2014.

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• money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Winter, Long, Important

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• ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Ideas, Panic, Way

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• God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.

  Jessie Sampter

  Running, Eye, Law

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• I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Sheep, Yards, Sculpture

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ultimate

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