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title: "4 Opportune Moment Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hesiod/preserve-the-mean-the-opportune-moment-is-best-in-all-things/)

[Hesiod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hesiod/)

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> [“Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/arcadio-had-seen-her-many-times-working-in-her-parents-small-food/)

[Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> [“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/she-had-that-rare-virtue-of-never-existing-completely-except-for-that-2/)

[Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> [The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-ben-gurion/the-arabs-will-have-to-go-but-one-needs-an-opportune-moment-for/)

[David Ben-Gurion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-ben-gurion/)

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