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• Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves, or a dynamo governing a particular sensibility or intelligence and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

  Coleman Dowell

  Death, Block, Loss

  "Mrs. October was Here".

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• Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Technology, Opportunity, Gaps

  "Steppin' off the Edge". Podcast Interview, January 2011.

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• That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

  Dick Costolo

  Silly, Issues, Foolish

  dick costolo @dickc, twitter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

  Dionne Brand

  Moving, Book, Eye

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.227, Vintage Canada

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• Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

  Daniel Okrent

  Mind, Substance, Ears

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• My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!

  Arthur F. Burns

  Government, Effort, Political

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• You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open TWO jars! I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars... cltaning, who KNOWS how many knives!?

  Brian Regan

  Knives, Two, Sandwiches

  "Brian Regan Live". Album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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• Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Self, Expertise, Homogeneous

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• The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.

  David Hahn

  Insightful, Marketing, Helping

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• Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

  Milton Glaser

  Design, Doubt, Mind

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• Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

  Damon Keith

  Government, Doors, People

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• Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

  Noel Coward

  Stars, Knights, Play

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• The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

  Frank Zappa

  Stupid, Design, Lines

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Cat, Doors, Practice

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• The window is closing.

  Barack Obama

  Window

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• In closing, to those who have closed the door on religion - I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I thought he was going to hell. I said, 'I hope not. It will be hard to enjoy heaven without you.' If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Believe, Doors

  "What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?". www.esquire.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

  Greg Kinnear

  Airports, Doors, Long

  "Good Humor Man". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 25, 2006.

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• Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away.

  Wil Wheaton

  Block, Thinking, Law

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.

  Pope Francis

  Doors, Forgiving, Certain

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• Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.

  Pope Francis

  Differences, Catholic, Unity

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• Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Eye

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• Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

  Wayne Muller

  Space, Joints, Expansion

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• Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, Doors, Dust

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• When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Real, Ideas

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• I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!

  Pope Francis

  School, People, Church

  "Pope Francis’s ‘Mess’". www.nationalreview.com. August 1, 2013.

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