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• Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

  George Sand

  Young Love, Needs, Danger

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• The Eucharist is the life of the people. The Eucharist gives them a center of life. All can come together without the barriers of race or language in order to celebrate the feast days of the Church. It gives them a law of life, that of charity, of which it is the source; thus it forges between them a common bond, a Christian kinship

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Race, Order

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• Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mean, Odds, Embrace

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness”, p.130, New World Library

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• Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

  Anthony Doerr

  Dream, Book, Fall

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• The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

  Freda Adler

  Sex, Mind, Crosses

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

  Mark Cane

  Ideas, Overcoming, Obstacles

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• Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

  Rollo May

  People, Evil, Tears

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.

  Ann Wilson

  Keys, Debt, Wealth

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• That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Morning, Determination, Pain

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• Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

  Bob Ney

  Moving, Past, Effort

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• The barrier has begun to yield.

  John Herschel

  Yield, Astronomy, Cosmology

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.550, Cambridge University Press

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• I think now is our time. My mother was told by everyone that she had two choices: She could be a nurse or a teacher. The external barriers now are just so much lower. If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It's not that hard.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Teacher, Real

  "'Now Is Our Time'". Harvard Business Review interview, hbr.org. April 2013.

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• Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sports, Powerful, Government

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

  Tim Cook

  Wall, Focus, Problem

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• Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves. It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Heart, Mean, Space

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• But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Communication, Technology

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• As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

  Julia Cameron

  Real, Focus, Encounters

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.82, Penguin

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• Over the years, so many of the barriers that prevented people from getting married, crossing lines of faith or color or ethnicity have just disappeared. Because what's important is: 'Are you making a responsible decision? Have you thought it through? Do you understand the consequences?' And I think in the world that we're in today we need more of that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Color, Years

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• Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they
  understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Political, Soul

  UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. December 22, 2010.

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• Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.

  Morgan Freeman

  Want, What You Want

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• By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation.

  Carl Lewis

  Torches, Boundaries, Social

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• To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers, and generate options.

  Gary Hamel

  Giving, Effort, Priorities

  "Build a change platform, not a change program" by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini, www.mckinsey.com. October 2014.

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• Nothing breaks down barriers and preconceived ideas about 'Christians and Christianity' more than when we treat people the way Jesus treated His enemies.

  Chip Ingram

  Christian, Jesus, Ideas

  Chip Ingram (2013). “True Spirituality: Becoming a Romans 12 Christian”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Determination, Passion

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• Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Dream, Attitude, Fire

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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