"Cities can't afford to close their eyes and hope for the best, " he said.

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Anyone can close their eyes and make a wish that bad things do not happen.

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Did they close their eyes to wrongdoing so they could continue to sell stock and collect fat salaries?

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They instructed her to have the schoolchildren hold hands and close their eyes.

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Heck, there may be those who, when they get into that polling booth, just close their eyes and pick someone.

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Executives who make spectacularly bad decisions can only be subjected to criminal prosecution if they engage in fraud or deliberately close their eyes to it.

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We have individuals who when it's zero visibility like that, they will actually close their eyes because the eyes do nothing underwater when you can't see anyway.

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Because we have a large frontal lobe, we can close our eyes, simulate our actions and watch their consequences unfold on the little theater screens in our minds.

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That's a strange metaphor - their eyes would glaze over and their ears would close up.

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