“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”
- Shirley Chisholm- Copy
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“ Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before the. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ There seemed to be endless obstacles — it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. ”
- Joanna Field- Copy
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“ We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable. ”
- Henry Adams- Copy
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“ I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar — net of our senses. ”
- Diane Ackerman- Copy
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“ Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success. ”
- Louis Binstock- Copy
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“ I'm hoping. I've tried to carry myself that way because the struggle was much more than just breaking the color barrier in baseball. It was everything. ”
- Aaron Henry- Copy
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“ All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle. ”
- Jack Paar- Copy
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“ I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to. ”
- Dennis Quaid- Copy
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“ I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets. ”
- James Stewart- Copy
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“ There was frustration, obviously. You can't get that many opportunities and not do anything with it, and not get frustrated about it. ”
- Joe Torre- Copy
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“ All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ”
- Walt Disney- Copy
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“ Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason; knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ It was about repression and a whole lot of things. They're both gays, but one chooses to be more adventurous. The other has to go through self-denial and only accepts it when it's too late, when he missed him. That is true. Eventually we surpass the obstacles, and it's really a search for that obscure object of love. ”
- Ang Lee- Copy
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“ Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate. ”
- Anne Tucker- Copy
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“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains. ”
- Ernest Hello- Copy
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“ The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear. ”
- Elizabeth Goudge- Copy
- 543
“ Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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