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"Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that."
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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!"
"When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!"
"If you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you can't find!"
"Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it."
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
"Most people miss an opportunity because they fear to knock on the door."
"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."
"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"
"When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins."
"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."
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"Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government."
"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."
"There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy."
"I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today."
"I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs."
"I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change."
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