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"It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?"
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"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."

"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."

"Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth."

"All what you have to do is to accept, to be bold and open to the world and the world will open it's gates for you."

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."

"God gives absolutely everybody the opportunity to be successful in life."

"It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that."
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"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."


"The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not."
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