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  • Bob Dole If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Mark Twain It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Gibbard It seems that you live in someone else's dream
    In a hand-me-down wedding dress
    With the things that could have been are repressed
    But you said your vows and you closed the door
    On so many men who would have loved you more
    Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bill Flores It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Robert Eldridge Willmott Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and
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  • Adolf Galland Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Naomi Wolf The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
    Naomi Wolf
    American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor (1962 - )
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  • Gerald W. Johnson The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
    Gerald W. Johnson
    American journalist, editor, essayist, historian and biographer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Bobby Flay The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bill Dedman The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Viola The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • John Keble The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
    John Keble
    English poet (1792 - 1866)
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  • Al Goldstein There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Bill Bryson There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Lovett There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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