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«My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Chance,
Country,
Giving,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
influential, inheritance, Land of Opportunity, My Country, owes, schooling, village
«Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
(Writer)
| Keywords:
exhorted, exhorting, get off, get off the ground, jump, jump off, Land of Opportunity, Mama
«You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
The Present
| Keywords:
eternity, fools, island, Islands of the, land, Land of Opportunity, launch, launches, launching, live in, No Wave, opportunities
«I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
American Dream, argue, bring forward, confidently, distinctions, distributed, distributes, Distributing, equality, equality of opportunity, In Living Color, Italians, Italian A, Jews, Land of Opportunity, luxuries, necessities, Negroes, privilege, realization, separateness, skin color, The Italian, unfulfilled, widely, widely distributed
«Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
from time to time, Land of Opportunity, motives, neglected, overlooked, put off, travels
«America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
Land of Opportunity
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