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"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth."
"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."
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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."
"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."
"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."
"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."
"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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