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• At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there’s a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It’s beautiful.

  Karen Russell

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  Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

  Norman Mailer

  Topics in Failure, Humor

  Tags in Block, Writer, Writing

• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block – it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America – every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

  Quincy Jones

  Topics in America

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• If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

  Ralph Merkle

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Effectively, Block

• The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

  Dave Barry

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• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  Warren Farrell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gives, Block

• As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

  Margaret Carlson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Block, Expose, Corruption

• I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

  Earl Campbell

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  Tags in Block, Offensive, Lord

• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.

  Auguste Rodin

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  Tags in Off, Block, Marble, Need, Whatever, Choose, Chop

• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

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  Tags in Block, Ignorance, Imagination

• In outward show so splendid and so vain; ’tis but a gilded block without a brain.

  Phaedrus

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• A book that is shut is but a block.

  Thomas Fuller

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• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

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  Tags in Elimination, Chipping, Produces, Needed, Marble, Block, Sculptor, Process, Statue, Away, Parts, Beautiful, Such

• But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

  Ed Bradley

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• Them Block Muscle-Men, Hustlin’ Like Rick Ross.

  Ya Boy

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