Barriers Quotes

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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? — John Steinbeck
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a… — James Surowiecki
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. — Miguel de Unamuno
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. — Voltaire
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and… — George Washington
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves… — Jessamyn West
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated… — E. O. Wilson
If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In… — Viswanathan Anand
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' — Helen Fisher
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to… — Geoff Mulgan
You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you… — Marya Hornbacher
Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not. — Tom Perrotta
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything… — Douglas Adams
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Unknown Author
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the… — Aldous Huxley
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the… — Rebecca Solnit
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to… — Frank Herbert
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and… — Tom Robbins

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