Quotes with stumbling-block

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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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  • Charles F. Kettering Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Martin Luther King Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Lord George Byron Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Rancic My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Erma Bombeck My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Quentin Crisp Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Jane Austen One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Malcolm X Stumbling is not falling.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Marcel Duchamp The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • A. Harvey Block The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
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  • Bill Dedman The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Joel A. Barker The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
    Joel A. Barker
    American businessman
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  • Carl Hiaasen There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Shaquille O'Neal This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
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  • Henry Block We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
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