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"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
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"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to 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."

"Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted."
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"In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on."

"Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history."

"When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set."

"A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel."

"Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist."
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