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• The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Wrinkles, Hands

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife ... finish it out quietly like that." I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth." That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation.

  Frank Sinatra

  Artist, Men, Thinking

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• A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

  Alan Lightman

  Life, Autumn, Doors

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• A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

  Walter Winchell

  Art, Waiting, Entertainment

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• It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

  Arthur Golden

  Eye, Matter, Way

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.314, Random House

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• During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Moving, Sunset

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• I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

  Toni Morrison

  Book, Finishing, Wonderful

  "Toni Morrison Knows All About the 'Little Drop of Poison' in Your Childhood". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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• If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

  Ted Cruz

  Government, Obamacare, Assets

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Doors, Space, People

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• Alistair Crowley used to define magic as anything in which you can exercise your will in the world through the use of your mind. So what's the magical way of opening or closing that door? Well, to will your body to stand up and close or open that door, that's magic. With the iPhone, it's like you put your intent into it, and it helps you exercise that intent in the world.

  Jason Silva

  Exercise, Iphone, Doors

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

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• Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga-whether physical yoga or meditation-with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Yoga, Eye, Psychics

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Mean, Doors, Issues

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• Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Curriculum

  Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books

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• I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Past, Names, Giving

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• Now the seasons are closing their files
  on each of us, the heavy drawers
  full of certificates rolling back
  into the tree trunks, a few old papers
  flocking away. Someone we loved
  has fallen from our thoughts,
  making a little, glittering splash
  like a bicycle pushed by a breeze.
  Otherwise, not much has happened;
  we fell in love again, finding
  that one red feather on the wind.

  Ted Kooser

  Wind, Tree, Paper

  Ted Kooser (2005). “Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985”, p.96, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.

  Bob Goff

  Thinking, Doors, Want

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Thinking, Doors, Hearing

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.172, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Blessing, Past

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

  Irving Babbitt

  Mind, Judgment, Wells

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• There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in known chemistry for the belief that long sequences of reactions can organize spontaneously -- and every reason to believe that they cannot. The problem of achieving sufficient specificity, whether in aqueous solution or on the surface of a mineral, is so severe that the chance of closing a cycle of reactions as complex as the reverse citric acid cycle, for example, is negligible.

  Leslie Orgel

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Agreement

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• I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. 

  Tammara Webber

  Real, Eye, Trying

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.273, Tammara Webber

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• Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Fate, Play

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 11, 2012

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• It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sweet, Lying, Eye

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1867). “Religious Poems”, p.19

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• A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.

  Leo Burnett

  Doors, Coffins, Speak

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• You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

  Jeff Gordon

  Race, Lap, Stills

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