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• Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.

  Anant Agarwal

  Real, Believe, Moving

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• Always try to turn a marketing disaster into a marketing opportunity.

  Lester Wunderman

  Marketing, Trying, Disaster

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• Great tech opportunities happen only once.

  Peter Thiel

  Happens

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• The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

  Victor Ponta

  Children, Giving, Life Is

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• Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Promise, Matter

  "Michelle Obama in London to promote global education drive for girls". www.businessinsider.com. June 16, 2015.

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• The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Money, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Civil Disobedience”, p.48, Broadview Press

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• I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Storytelling, Commerce, Visuals

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• If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

  Joel Osteen

  Favors, Promotion, Where You Are

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• Action and adaptability create opportunity.

  Garrison Wynn

  Action, Adaptability

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• You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

  Susan Egan

  Knows

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• I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

  Theaster Gates

  Thinking, Willingness

  "Conversation With Theaster Gates: On Finding the Sweetest Fodder for His Imagination". Interview with Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Passion, School, Successful

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• If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winning, Giving, Satisfaction

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• Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.

  Mason Cooley

  Futility, Subjects

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• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Dirty, Past

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• Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in their lives and gain the access and opportunity they need to realize their potential.

  Gerald Chertavian

  Moving, Years, Adults

  "An Interview With Gerald Chertavian, Founder of Year Up". Youth Radio interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  House, Criticism, Approval

  Statement, April 1, 1924.

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• Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another person to connect in a powerful, positive way. How did you handle the last compliment directed at you? Did you accept it?

  Rhonda Britten

  Powerful, Growth, Way

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• Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]

  Menzies Campbell

  People, Office, Kind

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• I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Thinking

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• The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Order, Rights, Justice

  "De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 365". Judicial opinion, 1937.

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• How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the chances to recover and try again? How does one break the news that nothing permanent can be formed in an instant--children are not weaned, potty trained, taught manners, introduced to civilization in one or two tries--as everyone imagined.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Mistake, Civilization

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• Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Goal, Inward

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• A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Lying, Men, Giving

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• This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"

  Edward Lampert

  Thinking, Ideas, Keys

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