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"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
"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."
"If opportunity doesn't come knocking at your door, build a brand."
"Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together."
"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."
"There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it."
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
"Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life."
"Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes."
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"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."
"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."
"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
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