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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jules Renard Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Voltaire Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • E. M. Cioran Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Percy Ross A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Bob Rae History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Three, The End of Government?, p. 54
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Avi Arad I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • John Newton If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer-His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.
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  • Burton Cummings There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Alexander Cockburn A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Bill Bryson A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.
    Interview with Stanfords Newsletter (June 2001)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bill Viola A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Barten Holyday A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
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  • Joseph Conrad A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Francis Bacon A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Charles Dickens A very little key will open a very heavy door.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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