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Quotes 341 till 359 of 359.

  • Carl Sagan Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
    Interview with Charlie Rose (1996)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Sally Kempton Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.
    Sally Kempton
    American yoga teacher and author (1943 - )
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  • Abba Goold Woolson Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Sir William Osler Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • John Updike Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Zig Ziglar Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Robert Collier You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • George W. Crane You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
    George W. Crane
    American psychologist and physician
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  • Beth Henley You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Learned Hand You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
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  • Brandi Chastain You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Allen Klein Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Elias Canetti Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Fuller Good clothes open all doors.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Simone Weil To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Fuller All doors open to courtesy.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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