"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."

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Source : "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.

Whitney M. Young

#Inspirational Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Opportunist Quotes

“Iâ€™ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.”
“If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.”
“travel is compost for the mind”
“I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincoln'].”

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“I don't have holiday nightmares, but the worst part about holidays is airports for me. It's the travelling to it that's the pain really. But if there's a problem, I just sort it out and get on with it. What's the point of letting it ruin your holiday? It's a waste of time and a waste of life otherwise. Just open that champagne and have a ball. I've always got a drink in my hand, have you noticed that?”

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“In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.”
“No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.”
“A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.”

Source : Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.168

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