“ Our people were taken back to a culture of dependence. Our unity was destroyed, as tribalism was entrenched. The virtues of hard work were displaced, as national coffers were opened wide for looters. ”
- Mwai Kinaki- Copy
- 573
“ No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes. ”
- Howard Hughes- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Buddhism opened me up to seeing things from the standpoint of being a human being - looking at the purpose of action and the effects on life. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob. ”
- Bo Diddley- Copy
- 3.6K
“ No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal. ”
- Marilyn Ferguson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, "Let us pray". We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. ”
- Henry McNeal Turner- Copy
- 408
“ Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence heart first opened. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control. ”
- M. Charles Wheeler- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I thank Turkish officials for their decision not to send troops to Iraq. Turkey is a friendly country, and I want a new page to be opened between us. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true. ”
- Vanessa Redgrave- Copy
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“ The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite. ”
- Gerald W. Johnson- Copy
- 4K
“ On the third Tuesday of every September, floodgates are opened in a tall building on the East River in New York and a Niagara of rhetoric gushes forth for three months. ”
- Anthony Parsons- Copy
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“ The early seventies were not a time of great prosperity in the newly opened West, and the farmers, looking about for the source of their discomforts, not unnaturally fixed upon the railroads. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
- 227
“ I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul. ”
- Paulo Coelho- Copy
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“ No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever. ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
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“ But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
- 3.2K
“ And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 316
“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott- Copy
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“ I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ”
- Gerry Spence- Copy
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“ The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: "That is not what I meant by freedom — it is only social progress. ". ”
- Helene Deutsch- Copy
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“ Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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