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He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success
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