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• He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour, what hazards will he run! He will swim to the throne in blood.... Love heaven, and you cannot miss it; love breaks through all opposition-it takes heaven by storm.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Running, Sleep

  Thomas Watson (1838). “A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture”, p.618

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• You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Powerful, Risk

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• God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

  John Mayer

  Love, Let Me, I Can

  Song: Heartbreak Warfare, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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• Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.

  David Lodge

  Fall, Perfect, World

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.342, Penguin

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• Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

  John Carpenter

  Mother, Advertising, Invention

  Source: collider.com

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• Break through the bonds of your past.

  Tony Robbins

  Past, Your Past, Break

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• The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart in every way. He scatters faith, oppressing, burning and darkening us inwardly. We must look upon all such actions as illusions and falsehood, and break through this imaginary wall to the Lord, or to His Holy Mother, or His saints. As soon as you break through this wall you will be immediately saved. 'Your faith has made you whole' (Mt. 9:22).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mother, Wall

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• It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.

  Larry Merchant

  Trying, Attention, Fighter

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• We've got to be able to break through the barrier of logic

  Bob Proctor

  Able, Logic, Barriers

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• I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through.

  Jay Haas

  Ceilings, Hitting, Kind

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• We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

  Terry Riley

  Race, Understanding, Humans

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• Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.

  Karen Armstrong

  Military, Army, Years

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• What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Men, Sea

  Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.

  Charles Babbage

  Powerful, Science, Effort

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

  Bill James

  Sports, Children, Athlete

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• My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

  Zola Jesus

  Anxiety, Weakness, Way

  "Zola Jesus Is A Romantic". Interview with Leila Brillson, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2011.

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• You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Light, Ideas, Looks

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• You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

  Frederick Lenz

  Football, Health, Buddhism

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• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  Marat Safin

  Russia, Practice, People

  "Safin tries to hold serve with emotions, career". Interview with Jill Lieber, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

  Chuck Yeager

  Sound, Cockpit, Shakes

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• That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.

  Michael Chang

  Player, Men, Challenges

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• We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Thinking, Race

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• Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Twenties, Locks

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

  Bodhidharma

  Truth, Understanding, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Children, Mind

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