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"You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle."
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"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."
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"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."
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"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
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"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."
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"You must explore the timeless opportunities in life."
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"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."
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"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever."
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"Everyone gets in life in about 3 chances in one place. But everything is about how he wise he will use this chances!"
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"Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?"
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"There are endless opportunities in life."
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"The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them."
Fight
"My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost."
Government
"My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa."
February
"The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily."
Men
"But the love of adventure was in father's blood."
Love
"I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them."
Enemy
"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state."
Men
"Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it."
Men
"It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was."
Effort
"We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise."
Discovery
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