#barriers

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

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And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance. ↗

— John W. Snow

#continuing #conversation #growth #improved #our

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade. ↗

— Terry Branstad

#breaking #down #importance #increasing #international

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#challenges #failure #failures #inspirational #perseverance

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem. ↗

— Tim Cook

#focus #problem #redefining #scaling #things

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 him if he goes beyond them. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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And that’s the work of your generation. As long as more walls still stand...We’ll need more of you, young people, who imagine the world as it should be; who knock down walls; who knock down barriers; who imagine something different and have the courage to make it happen. The courage to bring communities together, to make even the small impossibilities a shining example of what is possible. ↗

— President Barack Obama

#change #courage #hope #peace #possibilities

The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn't what being in nature is all about. Rather, it's about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us. ↗

— Ryel Kestenbaum

#barriers #burden #civilization #distractions #freedom

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. ↗

— Freda Adler

#breach #cross #exist #minds #must

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party. ↗

— Franz Boas

#antipathy #barriers #down #enough #feeling