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"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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"The present offers fresh opportunities."

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

"Don't wait for opportunity in front of a closed door-wander until you find the open one."

"We're constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity."

"If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble's apparel, do not scorn it."

"Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!"

"Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs."

"Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors."

"When you have the right intention, the right opportunity will open the door."

"It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?"
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"Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays."

"Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem."

"It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."

"So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre."

"Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us."
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