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• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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• When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Tasks, Poet, Theater

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• The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

  Max Lerner

  Astonishment, Kingdoms, Surprise

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• To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

  Mark McCormack

  Pioneers, Pioneer Spirit, Bills

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• Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

  Tom Lantos

  Technology, Government, Google

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• Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

  James Henry Breasted

  Pyramids, Childhood, Vision

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• The gate of heaven is everywhere.

  Thomas Merton

  Heaven, Gates Of Heaven

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.68, Sounds True

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• The gates made of light swing open. You see in.

  Rumi

  Light, Swings, Made

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• Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

  John Lubbock

  Romantic, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sad, Lonely, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.542, Simon and Schuster

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• True love opens the gates of time.

  Neil Young

  Song

  Song: Stayin' Power, Album: Hawks And Doves, 1980

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• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Fighting, Fairy Stories

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Positivity, Mind, Here And There

  "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 79, 1958.

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• To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Time, Realizing

  Bertrand Russell (1981). “Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays”, p.23, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.

  Drew Brees

  I Can

  "Guest: Who's 'going To Disneyland'?" by Josh Zerkle, uproxx.com. February 05, 2010.

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• America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

  George W. Bush

  Second Chance, Land, America

  "Bush: the highlights", www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

  E. M. Forster

  Travel, Adventure, Sunshine

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Teacher, Heart

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• The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side...

  Jim Morrison

  Sides, Break, Wide

  "Song: Break On Through (To the Other Side)". January 1, 1967.

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• The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Luxury, Enemy, Folly

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• Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

  Homer

  Heart, Literature, Hateful

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.234

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• Our entire case as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests on the validity of this glorious First Vision. ... Nothing on which we base our doctrine, nothing we teach, nothing we live by is of greater importance than this initial declaration. I submit that if Joseph Smith talked with God the Father and His Beloved Son, then all else of which he spoke is true. This is the hinge on which turns the gate that leads to the path of salvation and eternal life.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Father, Son

  "What Are People Asking about Us?" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. November 1998.

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• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Love Is, Keys

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation

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• These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Power, Ease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.518, Harvard University Press

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