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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
Approximate author period: c. 1886 AD · industrial
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- Orison Swett Marden
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- Approximate author period: c. 1886 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1848 to 1924; Wikidata Q7102841, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7102841 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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