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«Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.»
Author: Dan Rather | About: America and Americans | Keywords: block, put up, traffic
«A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination»
«Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.»
Author: Marsha Sinetar | Keywords: block, pave, threaten
«Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it»
«All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.»
«He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power»
Author: Salvador De Madariaga | About: Freedom | Keywords: block, keep in, keep step
«I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.»
«A book that is shut is but a block»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: block, blocking, shut
«A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood»
«A good dog does not block the road»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | About: Animals | Keywords: block