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• What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Flower, Moving, Writing

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• Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Doors, Self, Diaries

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• In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Views, Years, People

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• There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Writing, Burning, Gaps

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• Whenever problems seem to get the best of me, whenever I feel them closing in on me, I go to a quiet place that lies somewhere in my soul. I do not reason, analyze or think. Those will come later. I simply go. From this place of silence, I garner strength and inspiration to stand firm in the face of fire, to be calm in the midst of thunder. When I emerge, the world has not changed, but I have. And in changing, a whole new world is born.

  John Harricharan

  Lying, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I just try to just roll with the punches. I mean, once the team pretty much starts closing out, just try to get in attack mode, and at the same time, try to find my teammates. It's kind of hard, hitting the shots I was hitting, to try and pass the ball, but you've got to figure out a way.

  J. R. Smith

  Team, Mean, Trying

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• I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Prayer, Suffering

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• I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Names, Credit, Pages

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• I would favor three policies: raising the minimum wage to $12, closing the tax loophole where persons only pay a 15% income tax on long term capital gains (tax it at the full tax rate), and institute a progressive tax moving the highest tax rate from 39.6% to 45%. I would favor implementing these three policies in that order, starting with raising the minimum wage, but not stopping there.

  Philip Kotler

  Moving, Order, Long

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Night, Men, Light

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

  Scott Baio

  Mean, Doors, Car

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.

  Tom Waits

  Fading, Closing Time

  Song: I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You, Album: Closing Time

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• Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Wall, War, Eye

  FaceBook post by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o from Aug 09, 2013

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• I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Inspirational, Basketball, Competition

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• But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technological Change, Opening Up, America

  Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Girl, Women, Feelings

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

  Neil Gaiman

  Library, Littles, Corn

  "Neil Gaiman: Libraries are cultural 'seed corn'". Interview with Toby Litt, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2014.

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• If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Reality, Names

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

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• If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Doors, People, Opening

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• People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

  Martha Manning

  Struggle, Heart, Justice

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• We keep this love in a photograph
  We made these memories for ourselves
  Where our eyes are never closing
  Hearts are never broken
  And time's forever frozen still

  Ed Sheeran

  Memories, Heart, Eye

  Song: Photograph

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• For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

  Richard Powers

  Doors, Awful, Possibility

  "Magic Powers" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2003.

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