"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell"
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"Every season, I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends."
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"An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life."
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"I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that."
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"What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few."
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"Success creates opportunities for other people."
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"Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people."
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"We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out."
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"Women are often told to have to be a certain way, to speak a certain way. The "norm" has been defined for many, many years, so it is very scary, especially for girls around the world who don't have the freedom and the opportunity to have a voice."
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"As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man."
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"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."
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"The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation"
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"Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity."
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"For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love."
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"View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose."
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"America means opportunity, freedom, power."
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"There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it."
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"Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness."
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"Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities."
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"There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke."
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