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• There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate and key is mathematics ... He who is ignorant of this [mathematics] cannot know the other sciences nor the affairs of this world.

  Roger Bacon

  Keys, Ignorant, World

  Roger Bacon (1928). “The Opus majus of Roger Bacon: a translation of Robert Belle Burke”

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• Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heaven, Evening, Sandals

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.340

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• A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Book, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

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• Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Compassion, Community, Enemy

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• Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.

  Rajneesh

  Heaven, Hell, Conscious

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• Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even without a gate. You go on jumping from this to that. In the morning you may be in heaven; by evening you are in hell. This moment heaven, that moment hell. It is just an attitude, just a state of your mind, just how you are feeling. Many times, in a single life, you may visit hell, and many times you may visit heaven. In a single day also.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Attitude, Jumping

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• The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Suicide, Military

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• Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'

  John Flavel

  Heart, Thinking, Tears

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• Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

  Omar Khayyam

  Fate, Rose, Thrones

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.152, University of Virginia Press

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• It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Ideas, History, Useless

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• Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

  Barnabe Rich

  Honesty, Bribery

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• We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Brother, Wall, America

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• If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

  Julie Krone

  Perseverance, Fence, Climbs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.

  William Crookes

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1989.

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• The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Eye, Meditation, Darkness

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• The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Lasts, Firsts

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• Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Clerks, Energy, Roles

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• Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

  Starhawk

  Going Away, Naked, Walks

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• When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Couple, Blow

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• Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!'

  Chris Rock

  Money, Bills, Way

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". Documentary, Comedy, April 17, 2004.

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• You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Crush, Passion

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.369, University of Illinois Press

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• At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Nature, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

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• Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.

  William Vaughn Moody

  Cities, Chicago, Young

  William Vaughn Moody (1901). “Gloucester Moors and Other Poems”

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• Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

  Hannah More

  Christian, Light, Darkness

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• Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Ignorance, Water

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

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