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"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
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"The present offers fresh opportunities."

"The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way."

"Always you can find what you want, if you search enough times."

"Joblessness is a time for reflection."

"Time given out through jobs can be channeled into something productive."

"Joblessness opens the door for greater opportunities."

"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."

"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."

"The opportunities that can be envisioned then created are endless."

"Losing your job is a great blessing in disguise."
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"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"

"A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all."

"I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world."

"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all."

"Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill."

"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves."
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