"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
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"Why are you knocking at every door ? Go, knock at the door of your own heart."
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"There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want."
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"Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels."
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""That's done it!" said Sam. "Now I've rung the front-door bell!""
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"If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door."
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"The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say"
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"Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of you now? Will he make you into a rat's liver? Will he make you into an insect's leg?' Tzu-Lai replied, 'The universe gave me my body so I may be carried, my life so I may work, my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. . . . If I regard the universe as a great furnace and creation as a master foundryman, why should anywhere I go not be all right?'"
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"...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red."
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"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice."
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"The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control."
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"I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors."
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"I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited."
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"Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay."
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"Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies."
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"On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way."
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"Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows."
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"I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!"
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"God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith."
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"There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different."
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