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"Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry, here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well."
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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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"Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet."

"I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible."

"In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be "me. (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)"

"Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation."

"As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only."

"I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually true.... There may be people who wish to live their lives under cradle-to-grave divine supervision, a permanent surveillance and monitoring. But I cannot imagine anything more horrible or grotesque."

"There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet."

"The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent."

"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."
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