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• Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

  Tatchakorn Yeerum

  Stones, Improvement, Failing

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• The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Needed, Marble

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• What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Soul, Victory, Stones

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.10

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• I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm going to get through. It's just a matter of finding a way.

  Elmore Leonard

  Believe, Littles, Matter

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• I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. If all you can see is your shadow, you're blocking your own light. If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

  Don Herold

  Light, Hands, People

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• The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.

  Oliver DeMille

  Government, Growth, Regulation

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• I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

  Jane Roberts

  Sidewalk, Secure, My Own

  Jane Roberts (2013). “The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two: A Seth Book in Two Volumes”, p.477, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Melting Away, Ice, Life Is Like

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Sneakers, Sides, Steps

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• God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright,
  For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;
  Along the hills of Galilee the white blocks sleeping lay,
  When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Jesus, Children, Sleep

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• The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Doors, Bankers, Target

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.44, Metropolitan Books

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• I really do believe that the basic principle that Americans have the right to know what they're buying when they buy it is going to be something that spreads across this country very quickly, and that the food manufacturers would be wise to be leaders instead of trying to block this with lawsuits and other ways of trying to get their way.

  Peter Shumlin

  Wise, Country, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out,
  and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened,
  can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lying, Doors, Trying

  Alice Hoffman (2002). “Blue Diary”, p.147, Penguin

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• One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.

  Frank Knight

  Team, Play, Special

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• The building block of every community is family.

  Paul Singer

  Community, Building, Building Blocks

  "Marriage Equality Honors for Boies, Olson, Singer: Scene" by Amanda Gordon, www.bloomberg.com. February 25, 2014.

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• Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.

  Judith Krug

  Children, Hair, Looks

  "Preventing Kids From Seeing Illegal Smut Is Not Unconstitutional; It's Common Sense" by Janet M. LaRue, Senior Director of Legal Studies at the Family Research Council, "National Policy Center: Idea House", 2001.

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• I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

  Christian Cooke

  Art, Fun, Moving

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• I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.

  Greg Cipes

  Two, Way, Parks

  "Michelangelo Knows Best – An Interview with Greg Cipes". Interview with Dak, www.wired.com. March 1, 2013.

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• In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

  Dream, Night, Light

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• I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!

  Edward Leedskalnin

  Pyramids, Secret, Tools

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• Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

  Nita Leland

  Views, Creative, Trying

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Education, Children, Kids

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• I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.

  Erin Heatherton

  Sports, Exercise, Everyday

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I really love acting. I really do. I really just think of myself like a working woman. And I just go from set to set and work. You have to promote a movie; you have to work. People are going to have opinions and it's weirdly very easy to kind of block out the world because you have your own.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, People, Acting

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• Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

  John Green

  Coal Miners, Coal, Miners

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