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“... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.”

Men Has Beens Opportunity Social Sex Responsibility Influence Danger Degrees Dignity Proportion Inverse

Author:Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.”

Thinking Has Beens Purpose Opportunity Realizing Destiny Waste Capable Could Have Been

Author:Colleen Houck

“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.”

“I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.”

World Has Beens Three Opportunity Winning Waiting Hurt Lucky Thirds Finished Titles Cracks Formulas Championship Formula One Third Time

Author:Allan McNish

“I have been very lucky because I have had the opportunity to see what it's like to have little or no money and what it's like to have a lot of it. I'm lucky because people make such a big deal of it and, if I didn't experience both, I wouldn't be able to know how important it really is for me. I can't comment on what having a lot of money means to others, but I do know that for me, having a lot more money isn't a lot better than having enough to cover the basics.”

“Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.”

Has Beens Opportunity Broken Apology

Book:Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust (Large Print 16pt)

“The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.”

Giving Kind Has Beens Book Form Opportunity Innovation Usual Bees Invited Lectures Buzz Bonnets Rare Opportunities

Author:Hermann Bondi

“We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity, for too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.”

“The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.”

People Kind Has Beens Different Opportunity Gone Television Benefits Remains Engines Platforms Promotion Rating Horizontal

Author:Anne Sweeney

“I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.”

Thinking Knows Mind Has Beens Opportunity Given Bits Skills Recognition Paris Here And There Artistry

Author:Wes Craven

“Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.”

Has Beens Wisdom Form Opportunity Fun Easy

Author:Javan

“Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.”

“Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world.”

People World Has Beens Country Opportunity Class Poverty Millions Middle Creation Development India China Around The World Middle Class Robust

Author:Dan Quayle

“The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of the bottom classes and into the top. If there is enough movement upward, people will accept the efficiency of the markets. If you have opportunity, there is a great tolerance for inequality. That has been the saving grace of the American system.”

People Ifs Has Beens Important Enough Opportunity Individual Accepting Class Issues Grace Movement Bottom Tolerance Inequality Saving Efficiency Important Issues Saving Grace

Author:Milton Friedman

“I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.”

“It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.”

Men Humans Has Beens Success Opportunity Hours Achievement Excellence Accomplish Proportion

Author:Samuel Butler