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As a British fashion designer, it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative direc...

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An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportu...

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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial...

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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near c...

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Stephen Jay GouldThe Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projecti...

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Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hop...

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And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with th...

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The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male cou...

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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world...

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It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape ...

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The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

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Thomas S. MonsonPathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not stand...

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The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she...

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He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that wi...

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I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I c...

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.

I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, ...

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America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

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W. E. B. Du BoisThe Souls of Black Folk

Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it...

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One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to ...

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Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register adva...

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's...

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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited a...

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People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.

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Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the l...

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I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You'...

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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean an...

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I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the wi...

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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the neces...

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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the indi...

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Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is mor...

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Aleister CrowleyThe Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the cl...

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When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and pract...

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Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling r...

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I take the opportunity each day offers.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, ...

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Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in t...

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Barbara EhrenreichLiving with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they h...

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The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of societ...

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In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing wh...

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Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winner...

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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your ...

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My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never...

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When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you h...

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarati...

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Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing someb...

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A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstra...

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School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their prioriti...

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As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practica...

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I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect...

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To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams c...

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If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opp...

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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ...

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As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I wa...

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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligati...

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One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another b...

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I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat...

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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a t...

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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we...

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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for th...

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There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a l...

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One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a ...

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Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time w...

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We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces imp...

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We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would den...

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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given...

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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with gr...

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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is ...

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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for al...

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To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you kn...

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Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives...

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Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire cr...

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Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner r...

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If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.