#opportunities

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#classes #communities #distribution #economic #enterprises

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. ↗

— William Glasser

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I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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Dictators never invent their own opportunities. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#disguised #faced #great #insoluble #insoluble problems

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#briefly #came #fact #got #happened

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents. ↗

— Nick Lampson

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ↗

— Ann Landers

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