It's generally human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity.
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I have always been very much struck by the advantage enjoyed by people who lived at an earlier period of the world than one's own. They had the first opportunity of saying the right thing. Over and over again it has happened to me to think of something which I thought was worth saying, only to find that it had been already exploited, and very often spoiled, before I had an opportunity of saying it.
Every decision, setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being you are.
I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk.
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