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• We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.

  Stephanie Mills

  Responsibility, Cells, Life And Death

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• I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Sweet Bird of Youth”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent colour than the other. Line blocks are nearly always printed with some variation of tone, and often in colour too.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Beautiful, Cutting, Unique

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• When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.

  Derren Brown

  Navy, Firsts, Serious

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• Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

  David Travis

  Clouds, Sunlight, Natural

  "9/11 study: Air traffic affects climate". Interview with Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2002.

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• A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

  Eric Maisel

  Fear, Dark, Dwelling

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

  Regina Brett

  Pages, Blank, Curse

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• Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

  Shawn Achor

  Adversity, Successful, People

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• As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.

  Robert Genn

  Motivation, Attitude, Ideas

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• This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market.

  Jermichael Finley

  Vision, Kind, Stills

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• The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Successful, Persons

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “The Power of Positive Living”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• There is no greater block to world peace or inner peace than fear. What we fear we tend to develop an unreasoning hatred for, so we come to hate and fear. This not only injures us psychologically and aggravates world tension, but through such negative concentration we tend to attract the things we fear. If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. How much this world needs the message and example of love and of faith!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Hate, Hatred, Inner Peace

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• The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you. They are therefore wise who make themselves an asset. We can be our own worst enemies or best friends. We can be a source of trouble or a cure for trouble. So if you feel empty, as many do, start by getting free from yourself as a first stop to vibrant living.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Successful, Worst Enemy

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• We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.

  Mark Hopkins

  Thinking, Flames, Iron

  Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235

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• Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

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• When you train, you should train as if on the battlefield. Make your eyes glare, lower your shoulders and harden your body. If you train with the same intensity and spirit as though you are striking and blocking against an actual opponent, you will naturally develop the same attitude as on a battlefield

  Anko Itosu

  Attitude, Eye, Body

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• Michael Roberts is a great rider and a great tactician; he was always using his brain in a race. His determination to become champion jockey was unswerving. He worked night and day, day and night to do it. You must have tunnel vision to become champion jockey: you must almost block everything else out, and he did that perfectly.

  Steve Cauthen

  Determination, Night, Tunnels

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• It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Suffering, Quitting, Beckham

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• Close your mouth,
  block off your senses,
  blunt your sharpness,
  untie your knots,
  soften your glare,
  settle your dust.
  This is the primal identity.

  Laozi

  Dust, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it.

  David Simon

  Country, Two, America

  "David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'". www.theguardian.com. December 07, 2013.

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• People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, People, Feelings

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• I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Class, Luxury

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• Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

  Craig Stone

  Flower, Sun, Machines

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• I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.

  Craig Stone

  Sex, Couple, Night

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• Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

  Karl Marx

  Real, War, Knowing

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 76, 1857-1858.

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