#obstacle

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. ↗

— John Acton

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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. ↗

— Andrew Bernstein

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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves. ↗

— Halle Berry

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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

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It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#been #data #death #describing #evaluation

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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