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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.


Desmond Tutu


#apart #because #closed #curtains #draw

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.


Ulrich Beck


#closed #come #concept #confronted #europe

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.


John Zorn


#closed #ears #get #going #great

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.


Mark Twain


#closed #doubt #fool #keep #mouth

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.


Denis Diderot


#approaches #back #closed #eyes #his

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.


Evangelista Torricelli


#end #filled #finger #glass #inverted

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.


Barbara Tuchman


#door #library #me #more #nothing

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.


Desmond Tutu


#africa #bible #came #closed #eyes

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.


Sarah Vowell


#case #closed #drew #figures #i

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.


Murray Walker


#decide #half #his #leave #open