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Old 11-06-2004, 04:30 AM  
CET
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Quote:
Originally posted by Joe Citizen
There is no such thing as equal opportunity.

It is an illusion.
So long as someone is not being deliberately blocked by another, there is equal opportunity. Even then, that does not stop those who truly want to succeed. Case in point Benjamin Banneker.

Benjamin Banneker

Here's another, Frederick Douglas.

Frederick Douglas
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"Just as a man who has fallen into a heap of filth ought to seek the great pond of water covered with lotuses, which is near by: even so seek thou for the great deathless lake of Nirvana to wash off the defilement of wrong. If the lake is not sought, it is not the fault of the lake."
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