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"The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him."
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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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"One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing."
"My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now."
"Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program."
"If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there."
"What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad."
"There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas."
"That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change."
"The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix."
"Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies."
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