Michel Foucault
Philosopher, Social Theorist
"What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities."
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Opening
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George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"What is the Heart? A flower opening."
Byron Katie
Author, Speaker
"The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty."
Laozi
Philosopher
"What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening."
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"Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing."
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"To begin is no more agony than opening your hand."
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"Opening amenities are often opening inanities."
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"When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence."
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"It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them."
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"There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world."
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"But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed."
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"We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!"
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"Live in the opening where there is no door to hide behind."
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"We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled."
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"He turned slowly like a fridge door opening."
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"Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose."
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"I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat"
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"In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes."
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