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  • Carl Sagan It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Caitlin Rose It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Wernher Von Braun It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
    Wernher Von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Beanie Sigel Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
    Beanie Sigel
    American rapper and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • John Irving Keep passing the open windows.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Marston Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
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  • Napoleon Let the path be open to talent.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Buddha Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Antony Sher Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
    Antony Sher
    British actor (1949 - )
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  • Bill Burr Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • John Oxenham Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives - to give, and give, and give.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • Dorothy Parker Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Confucius Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Robert A. Cook Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
    Robert A. Cook
    American Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor (1912 - 1991)
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