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• Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn't toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying it will ring; who doesn't lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?

  Jess Walter

  Crazy, Coffee, Taken

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• Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Stress, Coping Mechanisms

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

  Ann Patchett

  Moving, Ideas, Voice

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• Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers.

  Susan Cain

  Stupid, Ideas, Groups

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.89, Broadway Books

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• As I’d observed, it was clear that Rose was willing to do anything and fight anyone to protect her friend. I admired that—I admired that a lot—but it didn’t stop me from striking out to block her.

  Richelle Mead

  Fighting, Rose, Protect

  Richelle Mead (2016). “Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.196, Penguin

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• Pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I've tried to block out the memory of my high school years, but no matter how hard you try, it's always with you, like an unwanted hitchhiker. Or herpes. I assume.

  Jenny Lawson

  Memories, Hate, School

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart that she would never fear them again. No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge. She started briskly up the street toward home and the blocks seemed very long. Far, far too long. She caught up her skirts to her knees and began to run lightly. But this time she was not running from fear. She was running because Rhett's arms were at the end of the street.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Strong, Home

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.986, 谷月社

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• I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

  Anais Nin

  Falling In Love, Men, Sight

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Equality, Errors

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  The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Real, Food

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

  Mark Twain

  God, Men, Games

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

  Daniel Goleman

  Perseverance, Emotional, Self

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.100, Bantam

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• When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, Holiday, Apollo

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• Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Father, Parenting, Delay

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• My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

  Katha Pollitt

  Daughter, War, School

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time”, p.46, Random House

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• Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

  Mark Twain

  Sleep, Names, Entrepreneur

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• I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

  Katie Couric

  Single, Voice, Calling

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• Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

  Julia Cameron

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Apr 03, 2012

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• You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Strong, Yoga, Health

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• I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

  Walter Bagehot

  Worry, Political, Culture

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• There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Yoga, Unique

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

  Steve Pavlina

  Reality, Vision, Lenses

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• The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  God, Spiritual, Religion

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Brower (1968). “Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower”, Belknap Press

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• He hasn't lost his vision. That's one thing. He's good. The guy is smooth and knows how to set up blocks. He's a veteran, too. It's fun to watch him run. Hopefully everything works out all right physically, but certainly he looks good so far.

  Jake Delhomme

  Running, Fun, Work Out

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• Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

  Norman Cousins

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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