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"The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor."
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"It may be that you've just missed a great opportunity that should have been your turning point towards the direction of greatness. What next? Go into your closet and learn your lessons; "opportunity missed may not be regained, but new opportunity can be recreated with the will that have to work harder!"

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."

"When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

"Doors of opportunity are always open around you-you just have to find them."

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."

"You attract poverty when you lack value for time."

"If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst."

"I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there."

"Don't neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win."
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"Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods."


"For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us."


"We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet."


"And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free."


"Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston."
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