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"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."
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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."

"There's a profit attached to every problem. Find it, face it and fix it."

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."

"To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life."

"Few coffee shops have books, fewer have good books, and even less will have one book that can change your whole life. Now, the question is: How many people can find that book? And, among those who do, how many will read it? Because, you see, life always provides opportunities, but not many can see them, when they're just there, waiting to be found, when they come our way, even if in the most unexpected place in the world. One has to be very sharp to recognize a window of opportunity in a wall of illusions. And the ability to redirect attention, demands that one can be capable as well of knowing his own limitations in the vast sea of energy and vibrations. Now, I could be talking about a book, a group or a person, as the axiom remains true to itself."

"Infinite potential exists for what actions can be taken."

"Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life."

"Each new day offers the chance to start afresh, to achieve those things you most desires."

"One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one."
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"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race."

"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands."

"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."

"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."

"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies."

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."

"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit."

"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."
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