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“We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.”

Want Should Believe Government Ought Barriers Private Life Theocracy

Author:Robert Reich

“Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.”

Men Happens Reading Social Powerful Study Progress Mass Fellows Environmental Tales Barriers Elites Fellow Man Cautionary Tales

Author:Steven W. Mosher

“According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?”

People Humans Real Found Answers Universal Characteristics Reaching Barriers Waking Laziness Waking Life

Author:Louis Mackey

“Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices.”

“[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moronrun through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will cease thereby to be a moron.”

“I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.”

People Want Believe Government Jobs Given New York Barriers Grounded Good Job New Yorkers

Author:Carl Paladino

“Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.”

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Book:The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.”

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

“Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.”

Seems Challenges Effort Barriers Formidable

Author:Robert Breault

“I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.”

Thinking Trying Persons Hard Might Jobs Break Teaching Tvs Fine Wine Barriers Chef Breaking Down Intimidating Intimidated

Author:Ted Allen

“Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.”

Knows Wells Running Sports Performances Balls Tennis Barriers Judged Tennis Balls

Author:Martina Navratilova

“The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.”

Should Firsts Purpose Black Produce University Jew Lawyer Barriers Amendments Polish First Amendment Good Lawyer

Author:William O. Douglas

“The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.”

Natural Results Destruction Critical Miles Islands Barriers Acres Erosion Wetlands

Author:Mortimer Zuckerman

“As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.”

Mind Littles Miracle Blue Block Barriers Popping

Book:Meditations to Heal Your Life

Source: Meditations to Heal Your Life

“But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.”

Knows Feels Looks Felt Can Do Particular Band Yeah Who I Am Barriers Look At Me Asian Asian American

Author:James Iha

“When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.”

Giving Bigs Dancing Intimacy Barriers Cracks Hug

Author:Anton du Beke

“Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.”

Moving Process Natural Effects Concern Profound Species Barriers Dna Breeding Breach

Author:Paul Berg

“I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.”

Sea Scared Barriers Reefs Scuba Great Barrier Reef

Author:Tracie Bennett

“Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.”

Men Way Break Clear Men And Women Treated Subtle Barriers Breaking Down Disparity

Author:Eleanor Clift

“I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.”

People Thinking Knows Way Today Young Felt Groups Myth Opposition Barriers Relative Sixty Small Groups

Author:Bernardine Dohrn

“The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.”

Source: Memories of My Life

“The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?”

World School Emotional Down And Barriers Better Place

Author:Laura San Giacomo

“It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.”

Needs War Felt Huge Just One Thrive Barriers Comment Sparks Listeners Blogging

Author:Imogen Heap

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