"In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance."

Opportunity, America, Land, President

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"In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance."

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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!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Opportunity, Learning, Failure, Growth

"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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you can't find!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"Most people miss an opportunity because they fear to knock on the door."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Opportunity, Fear, Knock, Door

"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Opportunity, Luck, Effort, HardWork

"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"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."

Donald Johanson, American Scientist

Opportunity, Name, Understanding

"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."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically."

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"One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River."

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"In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer."

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"Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system."

Health, People, Importance, Living

"In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance."

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"While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi."

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"Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace."

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"From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin."

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"In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources."

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"I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires."

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