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  • All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
  • I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
  • A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
  • As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.
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  • Thomas Fuller A book that is shut is but a block.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Annie Dillard Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Ralph Ransom All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Dan Rather Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
    Dan Rather
     
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  • Bjarke Ingels Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Blake Mycoskie As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Marsha Sinetar Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
    Marsha Sinetar
    American writer
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  • Bob Dylan Come Congressmen, Senators, please heed the call
    Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
    For he who gets hurt will be he who has
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Thomas J. Watson Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Block Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
    Barbara Block
     
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  • Francois-Auguste Rodin I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
    Francois-Auguste Rodin
     
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  • Auguste Rodin I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • A. E. van Vogt I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Martin Luther King I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Henry Block If it's good they'll stop making it.
    Henry Block
     
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  • Bryan Fuller If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bill Hicks If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Carl Rowan It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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