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"If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social."
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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!"

"When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!"

"If you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you can't find!"

"Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it."

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

"Most people miss an opportunity because they fear to knock on the door."

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

"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"

"When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins."

"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."
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"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep."

"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application."

"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."

"It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office."

"Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government."

"We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody."

"Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that."
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