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"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
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"It may be that you've just missed a great opportunity that should have been your turning point towards the direction of greatness. What next? Go into your closet and learn your lessons; "opportunity missed may not be regained, but new opportunity can be recreated with the will that have to work harder!"
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."
"When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
"Doors of opportunity are always open around you-you just have to find them."
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."
"You attract poverty when you lack value for time."
"If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst."
"I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there."
"Don't neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win."
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"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."
"We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children."
"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."
"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."
"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
"In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion."
"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations."
"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."
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