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THERE IS PERHAPS no greater contradiction to truth nor denunciation of fact than that embodied in the oft-quoted "axiom" which would have us believe that opportunity knocks but once. Were this distressing cliche factual, rather than legendary, it might be well for most of us to subordinate all inspiration, ingenuity and application to the inevitable course of defeat and self-pity. For how many of us have failed to heed that first subtle inkling of opportunity and, subsequently, the knock on the door which proclaimed its arrival. How often has opportunity eluded us, despite our eager determination to herald its first approach, simply because we were not equipped to recognize it as such, and then much later discovered our misconception? How often has opportunity confronted us in the form of a routine incident without the slightest semblance of being a pretentious phenomenon, and then, eventually, through unpredictable circumstances, evolved lament- ably, as a mighty potent weapon for accomplishment? ISBN:0879800313
