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• For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Path, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

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• A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

  Vernon Howard

  Needs, Obsession, Obsessed

  "Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge". Book by V. A. Howard, 1974.

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• Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

  William James

  Ease, May, Born To Run

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• When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Loss, Infancy Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love, Spiritual, Light

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.176, Image

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• The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Law, Effort

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• A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Spring, Selfish

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at San Diego Exposition in San Diego, California, October 2, 1935.

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• A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.

  Mike Lofgren

  Jobs, Couple, Party

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• It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Long, Community

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.168, Penguin

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• Wholeness or health is our natural state. The nature of healing involves removing obstructions to this natural state and bringing individuals into alignment with themselves and their world. Free of these obstructions, an individual's innate intelligence and self-regulating capabilties will guide him toward a state of well being.

  Richard Carlson

  Healing, Self, World

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• I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

  Barack Obama's remarks at GOP House Issues Conference in Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 29, 2010.

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• Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Life, Heart, Body

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Exercise, Design

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.217

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• Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Space, Leaving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.222

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• The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Firsts, Steps

  Hugh Prather (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.7, Conari Press

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• Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

  Albert Einstein

  Faith, Inspiration, Creative

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

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• The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Independent, Unique, Self

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• Only thru a mucus-free diet can we expect to eliminate the accumulation of waste and obstructions deposited in the body tissues during a lifetime of wrong eating.

  Arnold Ehret

  Tissues, Body, Waste

  Arnold Ehret (2012). “Mucusless Diet Healing System: Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health”, p.88, Book Publishing Company

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• In general, 'Buddha' means 'Awakened One', someone who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and sees things as they really are. A Buddha is a person who is completely free from all faults and mental obstructions. There are many people who have become Buddhas in the past, and many people will become Buddhas in the future.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Ignorance, Mean, Sleep

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• The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mean, Names, Special

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  War, Fighting, Victory

  Interview with James Cameron, Picture Post, October 28, 1950.

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• The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Acceptance, Thinking, Atheism

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.

  Horace Mann

  Should Have, Opposites, Race

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• Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

  Wilfred Bion

  Arrogance

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• Martha Stewart was convicted of four counts of lying and obstruction of justice and could serve up to 20 years in Congress.

  Craig Kilborn

  Lying, Years, Justice

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