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«I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.»
Author: Auguste Rodin | Keywords: block, chop, chopping, chop off
«It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.»
«Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.»
«In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.»
«If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.»
«Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.»
«Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Misfortune | Keywords: block, brake, brakes, eyelid, mask, organ
«In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain»
Author: Phaedrus | Keywords: block, gild, gilded, gilding, gilds, splendid
«Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past»
«Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.»

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