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Quote by Mark Twain
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. – Mark Twain

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In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. – Mark Twain

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. – Mark Twain

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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. – William Arthur Ward

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Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Napoleon

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What I do know is that if one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. – Anchee Min, Becoming Madame Mao

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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. – Mahatma Gandhi

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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, its modern architecture. – Nancy Banks Smith

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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