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• I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Believe, Realization

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• Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creating, Numbers, Comfort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.98, A&C Black

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• Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Ideas, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.

  Laurance Labadie

  Order, Land, Rights

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Holiness, Neglect

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• A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Discipline, Tree, Would Be

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

  Caroline Norton

  Children, Practice, Abortion

  "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.

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• So just look into your acts, into your thoughts, into your feelings: you will find the armor everywhere. Wherever you see fear, you have created it. It was needed at one time - now it is no longer needed. A simple understanding that it is no longer needed... now it is a barrier, a hindrance, a burden. If you find something truthful, it will have its own validity. But in the armor you will not find anything that has any connection with truth. The whole armor is made of fear - layers and layers of fear.

  Rajneesh

  Fear, Simple, Understanding

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.167, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• I think functioning as a business manager can be a hindrance to having a real dialogue with the artist. I do think that artists need good lawyers and accountants, because they're dealing with serious money. But an artist who stands behind a manager? That's a little different. I think that can be a bad buffer.

  Larry Gagosian

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Reality, Meditation

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• The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron is no working hypothesis, but a working hindrance. Approaching Maxwell's equations with the concept of the rigid electron seems to me the same thing as going to a concert with your ears stopped up with cotton wool. We must admire the courage and the power of the school of the rigid electron which leaps across the widest mathematical hurdles with fabulous hypotheses, with the hope to land safely over there on experimental-physical ground.

  Hermann Minkowski

  School, Science, Views

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• Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.

  Michael Faraday

  Regret, Science, Men

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• He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

  Epictetus

  Fall, Wish, Desire

  Epictetus (2009). “The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus”, p.172, The Floating Press

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• Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been anxious to stop the further effusion of blood, and he trusted that everything would now be done to restore harmony and conciliate the people of the South. He said the emancipation of the Negroes would be no hindrance to the restoring of relations between the two sections of the country, as it would probably not be the desire of the majority of the Southern people to restore slavery then, even if the question were left open to them.

  Horace Porter

  Country, War, Blood

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• This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Civilization, Clothes, Nuisance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2013). “Tarzan Books 1 through 5”, eStar Books

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• Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Machines, Synthesis

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Practice, People, Becoming

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Soul, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Naughty, Two

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.4, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Ideas, Space, Sculpture

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• No practice can take you to liberation. That is important to know. It can be a little step that is useful until you realize you don't need it anymore, because after a certain point it becomes a hindrance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Practice, Important, Needs

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity?

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Successful, Giving

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• Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Practice, Important, Realizing

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

  John Locke

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Long

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