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"That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
"The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes."
"People should take every opportunity they can to save money because it really adds up, and the best way I know to do that is to make your savings automatic."
"I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene."
"Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness."
"We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships."
"Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me."
"He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being."
"Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind."
"Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer."
"Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat."
"A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly."
"I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them."
"This is a great opportunity for gear heads to celebrate the holiday, show off their hot rods and visit the aquarium."
"Let us not see today's troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver."
"Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise."
"Trump has the opportunity to be a Founding Father. You know why? Because Jeff Sessions comes from Alabama, where the constitution is staunchly racist. So it's not whether Sessions is racist but where he comes from. Trump can bring him in the mix and they open up a chance to do what a freedom fighter doesn't If Trump can help change what Sessions has been taught all his life, he can do more for the uplifting of the downtrodden than anyone else."
"When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an opportunity to make a living in America."
"[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work."
"You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up."
