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We pass through this world but once and opportunities you miss will never be available to you again.
nelson mandela
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
ira levin— Opening words
Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity ... a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk--they follow her.
warren farrell— p. 191. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?
ellen willis— "Women and the Myth of Consumerism", Ramparts (1969)
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.
indira gandhi— Referring to the fundamental rights of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" in the United States Declaration of Independence in a letter to Richard Nixon (December 15, 1971).[2]
After the second Die Hard , Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.
james berardinelli— Review of Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
As to ethics, the parties seem to me as much on a parity as the pot and the kettle. But want of knowledge or innocent intent is not ordinarily available to diminish patent protection.
robert h. jackson— Mercoid Corporation v. Mid-Continent Investment Co., 320 U.S. 661, 679 (1944) (dissenting).
The intention of the US found its feature through a clear formulation in the Agreement for the IBRD. The “purposes of the Bank” were defined as follows: “To promote private foreign investment by means of guarantees or participations in loans and other investments made by private investors; and when private capital is not available on reasonable terms, to supplement private investments by providing, on suitable conditions, finance for productive purposes out of its own capital, funds raised by it and its other resources”
— Nico Perrone The international economy from a political to an authoritative drive p. 130
Not only do physically disabled people have experiences which are not available to the able-bodied, they are in a better position to transcend cultural mythologies about the body, because they cannot do things the able-bodied feel they must do in order to be happy, ‘normal,’ and sane….If disabled people were truly heard, an explosion of knowledge of the human body and psyche would take place.
— Susan Wendell, in The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Robert Barr page at Project Gutenberg Robert Barr works available at LibriVox
robert barr— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont (audio recording)
Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
eknath easwaran— Easwaran, Eknath (1996). Original goodness: On the beatitudes of the sermon on the mount. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press. ISBN 0915132923. (p. 155) (book originally published 1989: p. 131)
Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.
john kenneth galbraith— "The Convenient Reverse of Logic in Our Time," commencement address, American University (1984); reprinted in A View from the Stands (1986)
You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
charles kettering— As quoted in Scientific American (August 1934) p. 243
All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.
nicole richie— p. 115 (The Truth About Diamonds (2005))
Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family. That is the acceptable and right thing to do. If we begin to expand that, not only do we dilute the resources that are available, we begin to dilute things like health care, retirement, all the things offered to families that help them be a family.
sharron angle— Damon, Anjeanette (22 October 2009), "Sharron Angle launches bid to run against Harry Reid", Reno Gazette-Journal
You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
sharron angle— interview with KRNO, 2010-07-14YouTube video, YouTube, 18 June 2010, retrieved on 2010-10-23 on unemployment benefits
Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. … At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question “What will make me happy?” as “What will make me healthy?” … Our souls do not spell out their troubles.
Alain de Botton— pp. 53-54 (The Consolations of Philosophy (2000))
...human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.
Peter Drucker— Civilizing the City, Leader to Leader, No. 7 (Winter 1998)
It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.
sam harris— Beyond Belief 2006 conference
I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.
judith krug— "Oak Lawn Library Vows to Keep Playboy on Shelf" by Jo Napolitano, Chicago Tribune, (June 23, 2005)
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
james russell lowell— Democracy and Addresses.
So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.
african spir— p. 54 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
If we are content with knowledge as a commodity, accessible only through a computerized bureaucracy, we can simply let companies provide it. But if we want to keep human knowledge open and freely available to humanity, we have to do the work to make it available that way. We have to write a free encyclopedia.
richard m. stallman— Richard Stallman - The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource, 1999 [11]
Closely related to the problem of the parallel postulate is the problem of whether physical space is infinite. Euclid assumes in Postulate 2 that a straight-line segment can be extended as far as necessary; he uses this fact, but only to find a larger finite length for example in Book I, Propositions 11, 16, and 20. For these proofs Heron gave new proofs that avoided extending the lines, in order to meet the objection of anyone who would deny that the space was available for the extension.
— Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972
While there are many different wiki content-management systems available for free or fee, MediaWiki is one of the most robust and and well-maintained systems available to wiki publishers.
— Rob Garner (2012). Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing. Wiley Publishing. p. 223. ISBN 1118287215.
With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.
— Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day 22 March 2013 [54]
In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.
Allan Bloom— Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), pp. 66-67
Listen, you get every available officer back to the station! Right now!
— Who: Matt Gibson
— Note: Gibson has just realized that Hoffman has switched places with a corpse from a previous trap to enter the police station where Jill Tuck is being held. Gibson manages to alert Detective Palmer before being gunned down by a hidden machine gun.
