Quotes with barrier

  • It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Mark Caine A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • George Eliot Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lord George Byron I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dross is coming.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Voltaire It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Barack Obama My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
    An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • M. Scott Peck Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
    M. Scott Peck
    American psychiatrist and author (1936 - 2005)
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  • Vernon Howard Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
    Vernon Howard
    Swiss actor (1918 - 1992)
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  • Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Campbell Newman The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Susanna Moodie The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
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  • Elbert Hubbard There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Helen Keller Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Thomas Brackett Reed To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
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