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"The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not."
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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."
"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."
"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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"I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much."
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
"Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?"
"I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words."
"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."
"I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display."
"There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever."
"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
"I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat."
"But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated."
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