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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 big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."
"Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities."
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
"Don't wait for the opportunity, create it."
"Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats."
"No noble opportunity is small. Mind small opportunities with noble traits, though they may seem quite uncanny at first sight; in the mind, you shall wonder!"
"It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower."
"Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic."
"If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God's rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land."
"One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one."
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"All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child."
"In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat."
"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 read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."
"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."
"If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children."
"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."
"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."
"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too."
"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."
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