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Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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Christians are losers.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.
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