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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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"Losing your job gives you access to time."
"One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances."
"First opportunity is the golden opportunity."
"Adversity is opportunity inside out."
"Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it."
"Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface, it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series!"
"One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch."
"Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It's not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it."
"Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you, you have to go for it."
"Opportunity is like a door; it is always open, but you have to be prepared to enter through it."
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"The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind."
"I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness."
"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence."
"If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable."
"Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East."
"I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst."
"I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it."
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