"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
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"Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me."
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"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
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"Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind."
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"I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health."
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"Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it."
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"I will always welcome joyfully any opportunity that comes my way to be of service to you"
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"I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit."
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"Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong."
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"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it"
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"Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities."
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"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."
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"The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience."
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"O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe."
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"Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."
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"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."
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"A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks."
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"Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you."
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"Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness."
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"If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world."
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