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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep."

Want Sleep Doors
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Stephen Kendrick Musician, Producer
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"Sometimes it wasn't even when we were knocking on doors, it would be, the phone would ring and somebody would say, "God told me to do this," and it would be exactly the perfect timing to help us with the next step of the filmmaking."

Perfect Doors Phones
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open."

Doors Eagles Professor Mcgonagall
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Laozi Philosopher
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"We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful."

Space Doors Clay
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Laozi Philosopher
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"Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off the sharp edges. Unravel all confusion. Harmonize the light, Give up contention: This is called finding the unity of life."

Light Doors Giving Up
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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room."

Memories Doors Exercise
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language."

Men Doors White Man
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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
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"I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations."

Simple Doors Silly
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Lea Thompson Actress
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"If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too."

Way Doors Acting
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons."

Doors Horse Sunny Afternoon
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you."

Thinking Cities Doors
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George Sand Novelist, Memoirist
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"It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door."

Men Home Doors
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while."

Men Doors Work
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it."

Men Doors Democracy
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all."

Giving Law Doors
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