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When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Alexander Graham Bell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: March 3
Died: 1922
Died: August 2
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