"If the desire to kill and the..." - Quote by Mark Twain
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.
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“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”
“The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.”
“Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.”
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“He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.”
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.”
“O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.”