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• If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.

  Deborah Feldman

  Fear, Years, Feet

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• The relic from before birth Enters one's heart one day. Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel, Be as gentle as if you were caressing an infant. The gate of earth should be shut tight, The portals of heaven should be first opened. Wash the yellow sprouts clean, And atop the mountain is thunder shaking the earth.

  Sun Bu'er

  Heart, Yellow, Meditation

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• Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.

  Dan Chaon

  Mom, Running, Doors

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• I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Media, People

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.

  Christiane Northrup

  Fall, Believe, Thinking

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• Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.

  Fady Joudah

  Reflection, Thinking, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes. That's a portal for me once a month, to play songs I know aren't getting played on that station the rest of the week.

  A-Trak

  Song, Play, Months

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There's people who feel that, Well, if I could profit off of sellin' sex to an eleven-year-old kid that comes through some kind of virtual portal, then I'm not really doin' it in actuality. I'm just kind of co-signing or fostering it, 'cause it can't be attached to me. I'm like, Yes it can, 'cause people are livin' through their avatar.

  Chuck D

  Sex, Kids, Years

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• Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality.

  Jason Silva

  Dream, Real, Space

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• With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Dream, New Year, Moving

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• I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, White, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Given that ever-broadening array of options and alternatives, as consumers and investors, we are often bewildered. We need guidance. That's where today's brands come in. They are not so much signals about a particular product, they are signals about good judgment, trustworthiness. A big brand, whether it's Schwab or Disney, is becoming analogous to a portal that sells us advice about where we can find great deals.

  Robert Reich

  Advice, Guidance, Judgment

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.423

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• Come when the rains
  Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
  While the slant sun of February pours
  Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
  The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
  And the broad arching portals of the grove
  Welcome thy entering.

  William C. Bryant

  Rain, Light, Ice

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Winter Piece”

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• "Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.

  Harvey Cox

  Children, Healing, School

  Harvey Cox (1985). “Seduction Spirit”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

  Horace

  Grieving, Doors, Cottages

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• I will go forward... I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean of circumstance... And the 'testimony of Jesus' will light up a lamp that will guide my vision through the portals of immortality, and communicate to my understanding the glories of the Celestial kingdom.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Spiritual, Jesus, Ocean

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• I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

  Christine Quinn

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Hurt, Children, Fate

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Song, Peace

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.100

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• Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.

  Janet Fitch

  Thinking, Creating, Stories

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• Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Fate, Dark, Voice

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• Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Outcomes, Arctic

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• You've to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn't sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.

  Jack Ma

  Smart, Offline, Rate

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• Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
  Whose portals are alternate Night and Day,
  How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
  Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Thinking, Night

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.136, University of Virginia Press

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