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" I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can. "

Carly Patterson

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" The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you. "

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" It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot. "

" Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance. "

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" Improvisation is too good to leave to chance. "

" If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs. "

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" I cry every chance I get. "

" There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. "

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" As a believer in the free market, the sooner you have people with a job - the better chance they have a job, the sooner they are employed - the sooner they become consumers. And the sooner they become consumers, the sooner they become deciders about their own health care decisions. "

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" I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time. "

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