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They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a mai...

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What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity i...

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Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone...

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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Mark TwainThe Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could g...

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Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about m...

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listeni...

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So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these ...

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Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak ...

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I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when...

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Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and stre...

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Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to s...

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Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of th...

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I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free peop...

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I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and o...

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It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always d...

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Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy persona...

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For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of...

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Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation an...

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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they...

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When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would pre...

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It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhun...

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If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lack...

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What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. Americ...

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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity ...

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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story ...

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The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story ...

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The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story ...

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The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story ...

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How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

She felt vulnerable and alone and had a sense that a great opportunity was slipping through her fing...

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Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then lea...

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He kept thinking about Mary. What a fool he'd been to let her go. To think, with the thoughtless ass...

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Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording ...

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Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have;...

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Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't...

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By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the o...

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You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when ...

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Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood...

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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The...

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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every...

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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportun...

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To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the gre...

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Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive r...

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I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late agai...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act f...

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That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interacti...

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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

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.