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• Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

  Mark Kozelek

  Block, Writing, Worry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• America is the only advanced industrial democracy where people can get sick and languish because they can't afford care. Or where people are blocked in access to the system because they don't have access to insurance, which is only available through certain narrow portals and under certain very restricted conditions. We're the only society that hasn't embraced this idea that no one should go without access to these services, regardless of their financial condition. And no one should be saddled with a lifetime of debt because they have the misfortune of falling ill.

  Glenn Loury

  Fall, People, Sick

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's never a matter of laziness or inability. It's just a matter of believing that what I'm doing is worthwhile, that it matters.I just make myself work. I just make myself go to work, whether I feel like it or not.

  David Small

  Believe, Laziness

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

  Victor Hugo

  Zero, Philosophy, Men

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• Ms. Merkel is avoiding retirement issues. She simply doesn't want to do anything, although she knows that doing nothing means that real pensions will fall. That is preprogrammed old-age poverty. When it comes to wage fairness: It was Ms. Merkel herself who blocked the establishment of a right to return to a fulltime job after going part time for a period. Yet everyone keeps saying that our platform is identical to that of the conservatives. It's crazy.

  Martin Schulz

  Retirement, Real, Crazy

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• To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not to be creative. But that impossible thing has happened, that ugly phenomenon has happened, because all your creative sources have been plugged, blocked, destroyed, and your whole energy has been forced into some activity that the society thinks is going to pay.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Impossible Things, Creative

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• I'm a big fan of pops of color, but I thought I would take that to the next level and do a color-blocked Rolex. This watch is the perfect accessory whether you're wearing a tee and jeans or a well-tailored suit.

  Brad Goreski

  Color, Jeans, Perfect

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• We never ask candidates to demonstrate their skill. We ask lots of questions about past experience, but simply looking at the results of their decisions does not let us understand the process that they used to make the choice in the first place. A good analogy is sports. If you wanted to know how well a person plays basketball, for example, you could look at statistics like shooting percentage or blocked shots. But, this is just an historical account of how well the individual played in the past - the numbers do not tell us much about how that individual plays basketball now.

  Justin Menkes

  Basketball, Sports, Past

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which the Chinese government has blocked, but it has a pretty healthy readership. The Guardian, for instance, has gotten tremendous growth through its website in the US. We have to figure out how to go after readership in different parts of the world.

  Dean Baquet

  Healthy, Growth, Chinese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete, probably contains enough material for several novels by a quieter kind of writer. And I try to get my arms around that material and see where it takes me.

  Ned Beauman

  Trying, Kind, Enough

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked
  About by body: there's in things a void-
  Which to have known will serve thee many a turn,
  Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt,
  Forever searching in the sum of all,
  And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.

  Lucretius

  Forever, Doubt, Body

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.189, Delphi Classics

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• Hillary Clinton has pledged to keep both of these illegal amnesty programs - including the 2014 amnesty which has been blocked by the Supreme Court. Clinton has also pledged to add a third executive amnesty.

  Donald Trump

  America, United States, Add

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Arizona, www.politico.com. August 31, 2016.

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• I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Children, Want, Spirit

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

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• I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

  Jim Harrison

  Winter, Car, Lovely

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Hate, Ocean, Australia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

  Vince Lombardi

  Games, World, Plans

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• If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

  Neil T Anderson

  Want Something, Goal, Done

  Neil T. Anderson (2000). “Victory Over the Darkness: Realize the Power of Your Identity in Christ”, p.131, Gospel Light Publications

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• Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

  Lauren Bowles

  Journey, Progress, Trying

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• Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Energy, Explosions

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• When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Mind, Sitting Down

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• I hesitate to say yes - I had writer's block, because I know there are people who've had really serious cases of it, and I've never been paralyzed like that, but I definitely get blocked sometimes. More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

  Jonathan Dee

  Block, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it has even blocked expanding security forces from Kabul to other cities.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Cities, Kabul, Lines

  Source: progressive.org

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• We've taken decisive action to keep radical islamic terrorists out of our country, though parts of our necessary and constitutional actions were blocked by our judges, in my opinion, incorrect, and unsafe ruling.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taken, Islamic

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.

  Noam Chomsky

  Korea, Years, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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