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"Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves."
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"Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!"

"I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules."

"When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself."

"Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world."

"Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place."

"If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it."

"We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great."

"Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite."

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."

"Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision."
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"Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world."

"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."

"My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon."

"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."

"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."

"We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain."

"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."

"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."
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