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• Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.

  Nicole Haislett

  Past, Limits, Process

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• Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.

  Erwin Griswold

  Strong, Gun, Law

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• You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want.

  Douglas Merrill

  Believe, Keys, Organization

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• Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming.
  Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
  to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Powerful, Taken, Might

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• I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, World, Want

  "Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls breaks down color barriers, one runway at a time" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

  Robert Plant

  Lonely, Communication, Mean

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• Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

  John M. Perkins

  Justice, Economic, Samaritans

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• One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

  Bill Crawford

  Kids, Parent, Belief

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• One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

  Roald Hoffmann

  One Day, Molecules, Rotation

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• Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Roots

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.33, Knopf

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• The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Science, Technology

  "Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen" by Freeman Dyson, (p. 270), 2004.

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• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Wall, Pain, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from May 17, 2014

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• I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told us that magicians tried to stay out of Manhattan. He said Manhattan had other problems--whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.

  Rick Riordan

  Horse, Views, Rivers

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• The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder.

  Neal Shusterman

  Strong, Rivers, Cities

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• It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Break Through, Risk, Bud

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• every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Wall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Love Story”, p.84, Penguin

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• The Set animal’s jaws were pried open so fast that it yelped and let go of my arm. I stood, now encased in a magical barrier twice my normal size, and kicked Leroy into a wall. Good! said Horus. Now dispatch the beast to the netherworld! Quiet man. I’m doing all the work.

  Rick Riordan

  Letting Go, Wall, Animal

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• Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.

  Stephen King

  Doctors, Broken, Needs

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winning, Men, Dawn

  "Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore:".

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• What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips. "You can't stay here much longer," she said. My mouth dropped open. "You...you speak English?" She snorted. "Of course.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Speak English, House

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.128, Penguin

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• To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

  "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story". Book by Benjamin Carson, 1990.

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• People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've doing something awful. And your life is changed forever.

  Matt de la Pena

  Baby, Thinking, Feet

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• In a word, 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. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Book, Here I Am

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Teacher, Distance, Believe

  "Ceremony". Book by Leslie Marmon Silko, 1977.

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• I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture”, p.3, Macmillan

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