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• The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

  John Piper

  People, Broken, Half

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• The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Ideas, People, Movement

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2005.

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• Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

  Judy Gold

  Rivers, Speech, Broke

  "Joan Rivers gave misfit girls permission to dream" by Judy Gold, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers

  Donald McGavran

  Christian, Men, Class

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• Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.

  Michael Rosen

  Commitment, Exercise, Choices

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• The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Order, Play

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Aug 23, 2010

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• The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Youth, Goliath

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• On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.

  Jim Ramstad

  Anniversary, Long, Important

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• To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.

  Van Jones

  Powerful, Color, White

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• I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly

  Scott Bakula

  Real, People, Acting

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• Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

  Matthew Lillard

  Thinking, People, Broken

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

  Connie Sellecca

  Kids, Play, Language Barriers

  "John Tesh and Family Comfort Sri Lankan Victims". "The 700 Club" with Gordon Robertson, www.cbn.com. January 14, 2005.

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• I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  Nat King Cole

  Helping, Wonder, Well Known

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• I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

  Mo Rocca

  Thinking, Voting, Groups

  "Mo Rocca measures the 2012 race in laughs" by Alexander Trowbridge, www.politico.com. September 12, 2012.

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• Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Hate, People, Introvert

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.146, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I have been continuously surprised by people who come to me and say they are afraid of love. What is the fear of love? It is because when you really love somebody your ego starts slipping and melting. You cannot love with the ego; the ego becomes a barrier. and when you want to drop the barrier the ego says, 'This is going to be a death. Beware!'

  Rajneesh

  Love, People, Ego

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• I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Hate, Character, Writing

  "This much I know: Patricia Cornwell". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get a bigger yield off of their farms? A new type of seed that gets out to a man, let's say, that's drought resistant - because, of course, the rains are changing in Africa with climate change - if you don't put it in the hands of a woman, she won't necessarily get it. We look at breaking down all those barriers.

  Melinda Gates

  Rain, Men, Yield

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.

  John Foley

  Faith, Inspiration, Example

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• Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.

  James Madison

  Ambition, Simple, Government

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.192

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• It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, India, Chess

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1930.

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• It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.

  James Madison

  Self, Germs, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788”, p.219

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• The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance, and that mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men; and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary. They, therefore, instituted your Senate.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

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• If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Class, Citizens, Taxation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such 'frontier' values, we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves, and in others, that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Compassion, Sick, Suffering

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