“Rand always says, “Never pass up an opportunity to pass moral judgment.” Well I say: “Look for an opportunity to do something more useful instead.” Nobody was led to virtue by being told he was a scoundrel.”

Interview by Alec Mouhibian in The Free Radical (November 2004)

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Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer 1930–2014

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

“People say, "Do you have the same opportunity today as you had years ago?" And I said, "Absolutely." You always have an opportunity. There's always an opportunity, especially in this country.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Source: Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/21/le.00.html, CNN (21 March 2004)

“My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.”

Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer

“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5

“The opportunity passes if the ready alternative is not available.”

John W. Kingdon (1940) American political scientist

Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 8, The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams, p. 170

“You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs — they pass into laws — they pass into doctrines — they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.”

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881) English churchman, Dean of Westminster

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 64.

“But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.”

Raymond E. Feist book Magician: Master

Source: Magician: Master

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Lord Goring, Act I
Variant: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”

Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer

“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“Rand always says, “Never pass up an opportunity to pass moral judgment.” Well I say: “Look for an opportunity to do something more useful instead.” Nobody was led to virtue by being told he was a scoundrel.”

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