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• I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Attitude

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness.  So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Compassion, Practice

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• The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Views, Important, Oppression

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• Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

  Michael Shermer

  Smart, Believe, People

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.297, Holt Paperbacks

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• It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

  Frances Perkins

  Mind, Way, Spirit

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• Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Acceptance, Science

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• You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence.

  John Welwood

  Love, Beautiful, Way

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• If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with acceptance, and they'll forge a nourishing and meaningful bond as the book continues.

  Joshua Mohr

  Meaningful, Book, Character

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• I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite "good day." If I do like it, I will say: "Sit down; stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Good Day, Ideas, House

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2196, Library of Alexandria

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• We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, Open Minded, States

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1240, Wordsworth Editions

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• One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

  Marsden Wagner

  Attitude, Women, Doctors

  Marsden Wagner (2008). “Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must be Fixed to Put Women and Children First”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

  Edward Carey

  Relaxation, Should, Conversation

  Edward Carey (2011). “Observatory Mansions”, p.65, Pan Macmillan

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• Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

  Kirk J. Schneider

  Couple, Mean, Challenges

  Kirk J. Schneider (1990). “The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature”, Prometheus Books

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• You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

  Bruce Mau

  Inspirational, Change, Growth

  "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.

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• All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

  Joline Godfrey

  Creativity, Humor, Playing Games

  Joline Godfrey (1992). “Our wildest dreams: women entrepreneurs making money, having fun, doing good”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

  John Podhoretz

  Party, Successful, Israel

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• If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind - which is in fact your natural mind, the naturally unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Relaxation, Mind, Trying

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.57, Random House

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• Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Keys, People, Intellectual

  Jeff Jarvis (2009). “What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Doors, People, Transparency

  "Reforming the Way Washington Works". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Gratitude, Scent, Welcome

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• The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

  John Cleese

  Essence, Play, Feelings

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• In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to a state of openness and receptivity. You are always in change. You are always safe.

  Louise Hay

  Order, Mind, Relax

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jun 04, 2012

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• Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

  David Spangler

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship; for a female, communication and conversation. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. The fourth basic need of a male is domestic support; for a female, financial support. The fifth basic need of a male is admiration and respect; for a woman, family commitment.

  Myles Munroe

  Honesty, Communication, Commitment

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.166, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation.

  Pope Francis

  Powerful, Reality, Effort

  "Pope Francis's meeting with Kim Davis should come as no surprise". www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2015.

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