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"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself."
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"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."

"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."

"Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man."

"Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person."
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"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."

"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."

"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."

"Today is the day you've been waiting for."

"Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him."

"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."

"You must explore the timeless opportunities in life."

"It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you'd lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility."

"There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it."
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