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Opportunity

"I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now."

Children Opportunity Sick
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
Opportunity

"No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury."

Art War Opportunity
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
Opportunity

"As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity."

Art War Opportunity
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Laurent Lamothe Politician
Opportunity

"We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities."

Country Opportunity Haiti
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Kathleen Brown Politician
Opportunity

"Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes were committed could demand that the convicts' country of origin incarcerate the prisoners for the terms to which they were sentenced.... Foreign felons in U.S. prisons are exacerbating out budget and law enforcement problems.... We will never get countries to take back their prisoners unless we have some leverage. NAFTA gives us that opportunity."

Country Law Opportunity
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Opportunity

"It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em."

Thinking Long Opportunity
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Opportunity

"To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion."

Opportunity Views Cheerful
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Helen Keller Author, Activist
Opportunity

"I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly."

Beautiful Opportunity Angel
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Opportunity

"We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love."

Lying Opportunity Uplifting
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Graham Taylor Football Manager
Opportunity

"I loved watching Ken Griffey Jr play for the Mariners and when he was trade to the Reds I was especially excited to get the opportunity to watch him play in person."

Play Opportunity Watches
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Groucho Marx Actor, Comedian, Writer
Opportunity

"I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup."

Home Play Opportunity
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Leonardo DiCaprio Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist
Opportunity

"I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them."

Opportunity Careers Fleeting
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Henry Ford Industrialist
Opportunity

"What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power"

Lying Opportunity Age
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