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"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement."	George Burton Adams
"Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity."	Alcaeus
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."	Saul David Alinsky
"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional."	John Amatt
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."	Moshe Arens
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."	Sir Francis Bacon
"I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."	Lucille Ball
"The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth."	Mary McLeod Bethune
"Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them."	Clarence Birdseye
"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."	Joan Borysenko
"Whatever we possess becomes of double value When we have the opportunity of sharing it with others."	Bouilly
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."	Barbara Bush
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."	James Francis Byrnes
"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."	Albert Camus
"This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."	Al Capone
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."	Dale Carnegie
"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."	Kyle Chandler
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."	William Ellery Channing
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Clarence Birdseye	Dale Carnegie	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
Dan Custer	Demosthenes	Douglas MacArthur
Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl	Duke Ellington	D. Morgan
Eric Hoffer	François Maurice Mitterrand	George Burton Adams
Gloria Gaither	Henry Ford	Henry John Kaiser
Irving Kristol	James Francis Byrnes	Jim Davis
Joan Borysenko	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Amatt
John B. Gough	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Martin Fischer
Kahlil Gibran	Kenneth Hildebrand	Kyle Chandler
Lewis Grizzard	Lucille Ball	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Margaret Mead	Marsha Evans	Mary McLeod Bethune
Michael	Michael Johnson	Michael J. Gelb
Mike McLaren	Moshe Arens	M. Shawn Covey
Noam Chomsky	Rick Irving	Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
Sally Koch	Samuel Goldwyn	Saul David Alinsky
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Steve Gray
Sue Atchley Ebaugh	Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Mann
Walt(er) Crawford Kelly	William Ellery Channing	William S. Gilbert
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