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“Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.”

“Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.”

Knows Littles Enough Would Be Opportunity Lifetime Developing Fortunate Operating Systems Rare Opportunities

Author:Dave Cutler

“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

“I was one of two first cultural exchange artists been allowed to go to the West. I knew it was such a rare opportunity and I had to treasure it by giving my utter most to achieve excellence.”

Giving Firsts Two Artist Opportunity Achieve Excellence West Treasure Cultural Exchange Rare Opportunities

Author:Li Cunxin

“We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.”

Source: A World Transformed

“Heading the show very thrilling personally, and an incredibly rare opportunity for growth on many levels in terms of workload and just pure skill. It's been fantastic.”

Shows Opportunity Growth Term Levels Pure Skills Fantastic Thrilling Headings Workload Rare Opportunities

Author:David Giuntoli

“I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not clear that we will survive our own folly, but we have a rare opportunity to do that if we listen and see the messages that nature is showing at us right now, that the finiteness of our own resources and our own planet are showing us right now.”

Ifs Believe Mean Use Opportunity I Believe Clear Planets Right Now Messages Resources Folly Our Future Capability Assured Rare Opportunities

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“I've very rarely worked with somebody that had such a clear idea of what Alejandro Amenábar wanted to do and what he wanted to achieve. The guy is incredibly prepared. He was clearly making a movie for himself and his own dream. I just tried to be a part of that dream. It's a rare opportunity.”

Ideas Dream Wanted Guy Opportunity Clear Achieve Prepared Bars Amen Rare Opportunities

Author:Ethan Hawke

“He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love.”

World Opportunity Lines Ability Records Mets Safe Performances Mark Obligation Opera True Life Live Performance Ability To Love Tchaikovsky Rare Opportunities

Author:Ann Patchett

“Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.”

Littles Opportunity Felt Waiting Mom Late Too Late Couches Once Upon A Time Rare Opportunities

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”

“Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.”

People Inspirational Wells Opportunity Differences Basketball Making A Difference You Can Make A Difference Rare Opportunities

Author:Bill Walton

“Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.”

Knows Choices Opportunity Know How Occasions Life Opportunity Rare Opportunities

Author:Josh Billings

“If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.”

Ifs Country Dies Opportunity Grows Watches Talent Planes Crash Aeroplanes Great Talent Plane Crashes Rare Opportunities Aries Man

Author:Eddie Murphy

“The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.”

World War America Moving Order Opportunity Periods Iraq Cooperation New World Conspiracy Historic New World Order World Order Persian Gulf Troubled Times Rare Opportunities

Author:George W. Bush

“The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats and the media, is that Washington dysfunction is the work of the Party of No. Expose the real agent of do-nothing. Show that, when Harry Reid can no longer consign House-passed legislation to oblivion, Congress can actually work.”

“And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?”

Giving Trying Heart Fighting Opportunity Understanding Struggle Fate Mouths Property Poison Humiliation Observing Trembling Away From You Rare Opportunities

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.”

“I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.”

People Years Two States Opportunity Acting Break Four Degrees Models Research Mathematics Dimensions Four Years Multiplicity Theorems Ucla Undergraduate Rare Opportunities

Author:Danica McKellar