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“He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world's chaos and warfare.”

“My enemy is not the average white guy, its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the streets. My enemy is the white I don't see: the people in The white House, the corporate monoply owners. Fake liberal politicians-those are my enemies.”

People Kids Guy House White Enemy Streets Politician Average Block Corporate Fake Owners White House White Guys

Author:Immortal Technique

“Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.”

Important Different Able Race Block Distracted Stadiums Sprint

Author:Allyson Felix

“Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.”

Men Past Forever He Man Mad Teeth Block Granite

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?”

Soul Body Wall Block Why Not Props

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn’t make a difference.”

Wells Moving Turns Water Differences Flow Block Hills Well Being Making A Difference Reservoirs

Author:John de Ruiter

“Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.”

Thinking Men Feels Block

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.”

Want Persons Talking Phones Block Shopping Telephones Supermarkets Carts Aisle Rams Shopping Carts

Author:Richard Turner

“Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.”

Men Way Want Causes Block Sufficient Trifles Straws Uneasy Great Ones

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

“In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.”

World Light Might Circumstances Red Thirds Green Following Block Horns Transport Third World Red Lights Green Lights

Book:Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

“To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.”

Fine Block Endeavor Vulgar Attempting Razors Vulgarity Vulgarity Is

Author:Alexander Pope

“Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.”

Men School Father Clear Particular Drug Gun Clean Block Kicks Complexity Neighborhood Gang Rivals Dealer Karate Facets Drug Dealers Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.”

Ifs Believe Guy Class Building Ten Block Suits Corporations Executives Rough Pins Make Believe Kindergarten Building Blocks

Author:Lee Iacocca

“You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.”

Way Years Ideas Reason Whole Facts Seems Realizing Fit Ordinary Complexes Patterns Work Out Absurd Block Providence I Have Learned Wiser Delay Frustrating Dealings

Book:The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

Source: The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

“Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.”

Break Car Experience Block Breaking Down

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.”

Made Important Facts Hands Seems Faces Three Alive Block Heat Layers Cubes

Author:Erno Rubik

“Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.”

Writing Sound Novel Findings Block Writer's Block

Author:Martin Amis

“There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.”

Ifs Writing Wells Matter Hands Moving Trouble Activity Picks No Matter What Block Pens Writer's Block Physical Activity Writing Well

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.”

Thinking Men Trying Real Life Is Prayer Duty Huge Praying Hero Stones Overcoming Blessed Obstacles Block Pushing Midst Worldly Find Me Weighing Devotee Real Heroes Pushing Away

Author:Ramakrishna

“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.”

Needs Use Past Beautiful Views Advantage Experience Block Abortion Yield Limbs Statues Compulsion Sprung

Author:Walter Benjamin

“It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.”

Technology Danger Deeper Block Dimensions

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.”

Way Trying Has Beens Made Body Running Practice Cry Masters Block Ran Frustrated Restructure

Author:Florence Griffith Joyner

“There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.”

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“There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.”