“ Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
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“ It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ”
- Paul Gauguin- Copy
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“ Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization. ”
- Adrienne Clarkson- Copy
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“ We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment. ”
- Bo Lozoff- Copy
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“ Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness. ”
- Louis Binstock- Copy
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“ Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. ”
- Charles F. Kettering- Copy
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“ See that no one puts a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. ”
- Arthur D. Little- Copy
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“ My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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“ One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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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.- Copy
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“ When one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ We have made assisting communities with economic and job development a top priority. Many communities often lack the financial resources to cleanup and redevelop brownfield sites or update water and waste disposal infrastructure systems. I have worked to deliver the money that turns what might be called stumbling blocks into building blocks. ”
- Lane Evans- Copy
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“ Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it — although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of… ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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