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• Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Squares

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• New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

  Jerry Saltz

  New York, Mean, Museums

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• The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Children, Responsibility

  Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

  Tom Selleck

  Government, America, United States

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• When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

  Maria Sharapova

  Focus, Tennis, Court

  "Sharapova Matches Court Brilliance With Heartfelt Speech After Winning 3rd Grand Slam Title". The Associated Press Report, www.espn.com. January 26, 2008.

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• Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Cowboy, Two

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• The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Bible, Biblical, Religion

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• In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

  Alex Steffen

  Government, Cities, America

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• If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

  R. L. Stine

  Writing, Way, Planning

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

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• Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

  Johnny Vegas

  Wise, Said, Expectancy

  "Tears of a clown" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2006.

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• When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

  Lech Walesa

  Fighting, Phones, Cells

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• Where I come from, the block become your daddy.

  Lil Wayne

  Daddy

  "Get Shorty" by Garry Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2008.

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• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  Olivia Wilde

  Emotional, Feet, People

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• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

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• The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.

  Juan Williams

  Teacher, Children, Party

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• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  Venus Williams

  Pain, Play

  "Andy Murray wins quickly again at Australian Open" by John Pye, www.sfgate.com. January 22, 2011.

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• As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

  Edward Witten

  Strong, Everyday, Experience

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• If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

  will.i.am

  Know How, Knows, Freestyle

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• Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

  Colm Toibin

  Ideas, Long, Going Away

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• Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

  Anne Carson

  White, Miracle, Different

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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• Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

  Don Roff

  Writing, Ice Cream, Cures

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

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• Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

  Norman Mailer

  Ego, Writer's Block

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• To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Dark, Long, Silence

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Wall, Philosophy, Thinking

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser (1998). “The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.48, Indiana University Press

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• Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Aug 23, 2011

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