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“My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.”

States America Opportunity Belief Parent United United States Heard Land Pockets Land Of Opportunity

Author:Mia Love

“In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.”

Opportunity Company Talking Heard Reactions Great Things Firm Founders Google Visceral Consulting Very Cool Like Facebook

Author:Maynard Webb

“Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.”

“I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

Doe Opportunity Wish Taken Heard Protest Dissent Nonconformity

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.”

Action Father Opportunity Taken Heard Victory Importance Towns Performing Companion Rejoice Signals Anticipate Philip

Book:The life of Alexander the Great

Source: The life of Alexander the Great

“As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.”

Kind War Opportunity President Saws Heard Achieve Greatness Iraq Legacy Upheaval Wartime Achieve Greatness

Book:What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

Source: What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

“Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.”

Opportunity Virtue Democracy Heard Computer Assuming Vices Hearing Access Tendencies

Book:Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety

Source: Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety

“I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.”

Knows Men Opportunity Cases Heard Property Deprived Judicial Proceeding

Author:Bayley

“We often say, and you have heard the expression as it has already been referred to in this conference, that "as man now is, God once was, and as God now is, man may become." The only way man may become as God now is, is through fulfilling the laws of celestial marriage and the laws of the gospel, as I have just read to you the word of the Lord from the D&C. Can we afford to overlook such opportunities for exaltation? Temple marriage is not just another form of church wedding; it is a divine covenant with the Lord that if we are faithful to the end, we may become as God now is.”

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Author:Eldred G. Smith

“The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.”

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Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.”

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Author:James Lecesne

“Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.”