![IMAGE: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/doors-20172_640_alexander-graham-bell-402095_640.jpg)
閉ざされた扉があれば、開かれた扉もある。なのに私たちはたいてい、閉ざされた扉の前でいつまでも恨めしそうにたたずみ、自分に向かって開かれた扉の存在に気付かない。 - アレクサンダー・グラハム［アレキザンダー・グレアム］・ベル (1847 - 1922)
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When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us]. - Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: 1. In Search of the Bull. [Looking for the Ox.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/d660cde673167a0a2734b488c028dbfa-100x75.jpg)
![IMAGE: Expectation is better than realization. / There is a great difference between the fame and the reality. [The reality falls far short of the fame.] / The reality (always) falls short of the fame. [The reality often belies the fame.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/i-do-not-see-2384621_640-100x68.jpg)
![IMAGE: 8. Both Bull and Self Transcended. [Ox and Herdsman Vanished.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Oxherding_pictures_No._8_edit312-100x75.jpg)
