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- Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
- Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day…
- Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound…
- Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.
- A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.
- Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is…
- 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…
- Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao.…
- Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling,…
- The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and…
- Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But…
- Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything.…
- When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot…
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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. — Stephen Baldwin
- Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am… — Ernie Banks
- Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door? — Tyra Banks
- I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of… — Todd Barry
- I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of… — Drew Barrymore
- Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. — John Barrymore
- I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments… — Mario Batali
- In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,… — Bob Beauprez
- When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do… — Alexander Graham Bell
- Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell