Top 100 Quotes About Given Opportunity

#1. I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.

Eric Clapton

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#2. Don't feel so sad and disappointed when the telephone conversation with a friend starts to slow down and become stilted. Just try to be smart, lay it gentle and see it as a great given opportunity, a set up to draw attention to your long awaited goals.

Euginia Herlihy

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#3. The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

James Stewart

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#4. The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity.

Peter Kay

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#5. Success awaits the diligent faithful
who diligently grasp each prospect
of God given opportunity, wisely
interprets the mystery of its potential,
and moves in faith to obtain.

Calvin W. Allison

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#6. In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.

Morgan Freeman

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#7. God has given every man an opportunity and a chance to re-write his or her story; it is up to you to use a blunt pen or a ball point . I have chosen a ball point and this is just the beginning.

Bayode Ojo

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#8. A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

Denzel Washington

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#9. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.

Barbara Elsborg

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#10. " ... One can learn to focus on 'opportunity' as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively."

David Steindl-Rast

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#11. Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

George Vaillant

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#12. Harry was on a God-given mission - a trial mission that was the opportunity of an eternity and one he hoped would become a permanent job if he performed well.

Debbie Macomber

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#13. When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

Kelli O'Hara

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#14. I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

Scott Rolen

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#15. If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#16. Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

Morris Chestnut

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#17. I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.

Walton Goggins

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#18. Because the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own ... Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do ...

Richard Russo

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#19. How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

Tony Dungy

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#20. I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Mel Gibson

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#21. The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

Margaret Chan

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#22. Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

Steve Kerr

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#23. It's funny isn't it? People claim to know what love is
yet the minute they're given the opportunity to prove it
they bail.

Rachel Van Dyken

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#24. I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.

Gucci Mane

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#25. That when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

Dan Ariely

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#26. When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.

Yuvraj Singh

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#27. I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.

Jeanette Winterson

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#28. What has made America great have been the opportunities given to everyone in this country. Since our founding, individuals and families have come to America to seek freedom, opportunity and the choice for a better life.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

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#29. Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy.

Jason Winer

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#30. That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there to make our personalities for ourselves instead of putting up with what was given at the beginning.

Seymour Krim

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#31. The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ... moment.

Eugene H. Peterson

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#32. A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him.

Buck Brannaman

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#33. I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

Selma Blair

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#34. With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

Nile Rodgers

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#35. I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.

Mac Miller

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#36. It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!

Erica Jong

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#37. The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

Carter G. Woodson

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#38. There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.

Stieg Larsson

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#39. I've been given an opportunity to greatly impact people's lives through music. I want people to truly experience my heart, to connect with them on an emotional level and sing songs that bring meaning to their lives.

Ben Utecht

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#40. Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

Kelly Gallagher

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#41. I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist - a chance you just don't get every day.

Haruki Murakami

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#42. Healing takes place when grievances are given ample and patient space to be acknowledged, when there is transparency and honesty, when everybody is given the chance to be heard, when nobody is excluded, when people can accept the energy of the conflict and use it as a major opportunity for growth.

Franco Santoro

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#43. It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

Clarence Darrow

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#44. As a boy I dreamed that I could go on a boat with Jean Cousteau. But I was never given the opportunity. I am now giving that opportunity to young people around the world who would like to experience the beauty of nature.

Mike Horn

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#45. I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.

Michael Gove

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#46. Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.

Virginia Axline

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#47. The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

Viktor E. Frankl

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#48. I just think that we have more opportunity to have a bit more of that banter between each other. And, given that the two women are so different, there's really something to play with.

Sasha Alexander

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#49. It's really seeing student involvement ... as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

Adam Fletcher

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#50. There was no evidence that the intelligence of the human race had improved, but for the first time everyone was given the fullest opportunity of using what brain he had.

Arthur C. Clarke

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#51. Safe to do what?" he says in a gentler tone. "Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven't hurt people - you've given them an opportunity.

Suzanne Collins

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#52. May all you affirm and believe be given the opportunity to manifest - day by day.

Eleesha

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#53. There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.

Sam Walton

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#54. I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

Sara Blakely

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#55. Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

Paul Weyrich

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#56. It has been shown in business meetings that once a person has been given the opportunity to speak, that person is more likely to speak up again during the meeting.

Peter Pronovost

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#57. For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it's a left, I'll take it. If it's a right I'll take it.

Nonito Donaire

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#58. I pray at night, and I believe God has given me the gift to be able to perform in front of millions and millions of fans around the world. My faith in God has given me the opportunity to provide for my family and hopefully for generations to come.

Oscar Gutierrez

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#59. This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we've been given.

Ron Garan

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#60. Given the opportunity to help us with our dreams, the Universe does not disappoint.

Maggie Denhearn

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#61. Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

Michael Porter

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#62. Just because you're part of 'Twilight' does not mean you're a superstar. It means that you're given the opportunity to maybe become one later if you work hard. Once fandom goes away, which it will very soon, it's all about having your priorities straight and working hard.

Nikki Reed

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#63. A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

Jennifer Lopez

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#64. Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

Emily Saliers

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#65. Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life - now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

Beverly K. Bachel

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#66. Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity

Napoleon Hill

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#67. Informed that an opportunity would be given her to see her daughter before the latter was transferred to Mt Eden, she had done nothing.

Peter Graham

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#68. We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

Jeff Goins

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#69. I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.

Lauren Beukes

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#70. It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with amazing artists. I'm very blessed.

Misty Copeland

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#71. It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?

Timothy Olyphant

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#72. Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

David Steindl-Rast

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#73. I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

Amartya Sen

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#74. We cannot hope to build the Church and to bring hearts and souls to Christ without using every resource the Lord has given to help us take advantage of our opportunities and address the obstacles standing in our way.

M. Russell Ballard

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#75. One of the many things I love about Daenerys from Game of Thrones is she's given me an opportunity to fly the flag for young girls and women, to be more than just somebody's wife and somebody's girlfriend.

Emilia Clarke

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#76. Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.

Krista Ritchie

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#77. I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting on a sofa, and someone's going to feed me grapes, and I'm not getting up.'

Michelle Gomez

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#78. The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.

Paul Hoffman

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#79. Constant was a male and Mrs. Rumfoord was a female, and Constant imagined that he had the means of demonstrating, if given the opportunity, his unquestionable superiority.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#80. The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

Mia Love

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#81. Given the opportunity, every one, at some point in time, will dissapoint you!

Rudy Mazzocchi

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#82. Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our greatest values: freedom and opportunity, which have lifted millions out of poverty. At home, these values allow Americans to use their God-given potential and make their dreams reality.

Marco Rubio

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#83. I dislike poor teachers. They are criminals to me. I've seen so much cruelty toward children. I've seen so many children not given the opportunity to live up to their potential as human beings.

Pat Conroy

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#84. Andy [Murray] is one of the premier workaholics. He's given himself a lot of opportunities through that.

Milos Raonic

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#85. Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities that life has presented you.

Don Shula

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#86. [Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.

Shauna Niequist

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#87. If you've taken the time to write something, then people should be given the opportunity to read it

Martin Rothery

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#88. In my view, all students should be given an initial opportunity to pursue the science track as far as it goes. But for those who quickly decide that track isn't for them, a different style of teaching is in order.

Philip Kitcher

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#89. I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.

Greg Norman

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#90. Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

Lewis Carroll

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#91. I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

John Updike

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#92. Everyone has something to contribute to this world. It's just a matter of being given that opportunity to do so.

Grace Hightower

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#93. Honestly, there isn't anywhere in the world that I can say I would never travel to, given the opportunity.

Christie Laing

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#94. Evelyn looks at me with purpose. "Do you understand what I'm telling you? When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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#95. There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose.

Amos Oz

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#96. Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

Gary Johnson

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#97. We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.

Mao Zedong

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#98. Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.

Joe Abercrombie

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#99. It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

James S. Coleman

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#100. The aliens that sent the protomolecule hadn't needed to destroy humanity. They'd given humans the opportunity to destroy themselves, and as a species, they'd leaped on it.

James S.A. Corey

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