"Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered."
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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
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"Resisted temptations become lost opportunities."
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"Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can"
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"The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow."
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"But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life in Europe. They sought liberty and opportunity; and their strong sense of purpose has over two centuries, helped create a new unity and pride in being American."
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"Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity."
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"The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity."
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"Fundraising is proclaiming what we believe in such a way that we offer other people an opportunity to participate with us in our vision and mission."
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"America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences."
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"As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!"
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"Improve every opportunity to be melancholy."
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"The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity."
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"Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work"
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"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement."
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"Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent."
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"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."
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"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
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"To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all."
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"As travelers, it is our responsibility to adapt, otherwise we miss the whole point: the opportunity to gain a new perspective."
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