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"The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected."
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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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"I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment."

"I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control."

"I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment."

"Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners."

"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."

"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."

"These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion."
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