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Quotations by Subject: Opportunity (19 quotes)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.: Susan Taylor
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.: Michael Johnson

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich should pay their fair share. For twelve years, the Republicans have raised taxes on the middle class. It's time to give the middle class tax relief.: Bill Clinton (1946 - ), Announcement Speech, October 3, 1991
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.: Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.: Lester Maddox, ex-governor of Georgia

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