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- Nov 07, 2020
Opportunity Quotes
Words on access, equity, and potential.
These opportunity quotes come largely from people working to expand educational access, describing the gap between talent sent toward finance or law and talent sent toward underserved communities. One entry questions why a country built on equal opportunity still lets birthplace determine outcomes. Related reflections continue in our Great quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It's always an opportunity for a director to say something substantial and interesting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- Economic Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
- Economic Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm immensely proud to be a Democrat because of our party's history of fighting for justice, fairness, and equality. From Roosevelt to Obama, we've worked to bring seniors and children out of poverty, expanded civil rights, supported science and research, and pushed for equality of opportunity.
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- Nov 07, 2020