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• I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

  Anna Quindlen

  Successful, Philadelphia, Childhood

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• It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

  Viggo Mortensen

  New York, Cities, Spain

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• Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Humble, Perfection

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• It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, America, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
  Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
  That ocean of eternal peace is you.
  What is the difficulty that we suffer from?
  It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Ocean, Giving, Meditation

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• When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, May, Human Nature

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.368

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• An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.

  John By

  Successful, Engineering, Accomplishment

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• If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

  J. H. Hexter

  Communication, Knowledge, Science

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• The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look'd upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.

  Robert Boyle

  Nature, Science, Men

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• The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Home, Succeed, Workforce

  "Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I Feel Guilty Working Because Of My Kids’" by Catharine Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.

  Alan Cohen

  Letting Go, Freedom, Starting Over

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• We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Ignorant, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Understanding, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.173, Harvard University Press

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• The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Psychology, Ideals, Thyself

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Writing, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas”, p.111, OUP Oxford

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• Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.

  Mitt Romney

  Obamacare, Track, Growth

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• I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

  Herschel Walker

  Kids, Speech, Littles

  "Herschel Walker: 'Tell the World My Truth'" by Bob Woodruff, Jaime Hennessey and James Hill, abcnews.go.com. April 14, 2008.

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• This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way the traffic flows. Add impediments, the traffic endeavors to flow around them. Eilimate disparity. the traffic stops.

  George Saunders

  Country, Issues, Borders

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• Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spiritual, Attachment, Views

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Path of Compassion: Stories from the Buddha's Life”, p.111, Parallax Press

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• It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fear, Adventure, Pride

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

  Carl Sagan

  Weed, Marijuana, Dangerous World

  "Mr. X". Essay by Carl Sagan, hermiene.net. 1969.

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• Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

  Libba Bray

  Differences, Needs, Discord

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Salamanders, Seems

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• To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Queens, Real, Mean

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