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• Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or plain bigotry.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Emotional, Ignorant, Gone

  "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution". The American Biology Teacher, volume 35, p.125-9, March, 1973.

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• If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Mean, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.421, Parallax Press

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• The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Car, Racing, Progress

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• Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Choices, Overcoming

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.80, Thomas Nelson

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• We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simple, Vision, Answers

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Yoga, Rivers, Mind

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• Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles that inhibit your progress but your confidence, and will to break the inertia of fear and doubt.

  Douglas Smith

  Believe, Doubt, Progress

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• If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Buddhist, Two, Mixing

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• May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

  Winston Churchill

  War, Cities, Orange

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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• I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

  Joanne Woodward

  Depressing, School, Self

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• The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

  Maya Angelou

  Ghetto, Men, White

  "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

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• I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Order, White

  Letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 Apr. 1963, in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1963, p. 81

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• The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.

  Aly Raisman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team: Everything You Didn't Know" by Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. August 2, 2012.

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• You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to get into a zone. You know you're in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away 'cause they see the fire. You've got to be all business.

  Mike Matarazzo

  Workout, Eye, Bodybuilding

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• Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Acceptance, Growth, Watches

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

  Jim Calhoun

  Basketball, Player, Practice

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• Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Running, Coaching

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• You the type that be runnin ya mouth. See you on the block wanna run in ya house.

  Nicki Minaj

  Running, Bad Ass, House

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• Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Football, Mythology

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• I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can.... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ...whichever song really gets me going that night

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Song

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• Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams come up and say, "Delis, will you 'low Jim walk down the street with me?" My mammy say, "All right, Jim, you be a good boy," and dat de las' time I ever heard her speak, or ever see her. We walks down whar de houses grows close together and pretty soon comes to de slave market. I ain't seed it 'fore, but when marster Williams says, "Git up on de block," I got a funny feelin', and I knows what has happened.

  James Green

  Friday, Stars, Boys

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• A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."

  Wayne Dyer

  Positivity, Belief, Said

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 18, 2011

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• In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

  Scott Peterson

  Choices, Stones, Ends

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• Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Men, Progress

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.345, Univ of California Press

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• We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Running, Team

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