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  • William Jennings Bryan Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • William Jennings Bryan Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Toni Morrison I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Mark Twain I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • A. Philip Randolph I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Barry Mann If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Anne Tyler If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • John Henry Newman Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Osborne We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Benjamin Mkapa We could have waited for a donor to appear, but we believe in the spirit of self-development and confidence. We are not so poor that we are unable to carry out this project.
    On construction of the Unity Bridge, January 2005
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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