Quotes with open-eyed

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  • Bela Lugosi In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Edward Hoagland In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Bill Gross In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Carl Paladino In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Carl Sandburg In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Winston Churchill In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Margaret Mead It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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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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  • Abraham Lincoln It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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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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  • 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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