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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housew...

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People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, ha...

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People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, ha...

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He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was ...

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To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetr...

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Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do...

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Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her ...

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Live for each second without hesitation

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving ...

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Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which...

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Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence o...

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Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impe...

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All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that...

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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every...

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Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them ver...

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The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and...

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The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone throug...

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that...

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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious re...

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Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...

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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a ...

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In this world, you only get what you grab for.

My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the ...

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Graham GreeneLoser Takes All

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, a...

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Gustave FlaubertFlaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying ve...

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And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition bu...

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The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but ...

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The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but ...

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The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is lea...

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...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...

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Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that...

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I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, “Ah me! I wish I w...

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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...

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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...

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If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attracti...

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...

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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...

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Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about fi...

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…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the...

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From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding th...

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promis...

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Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remain...

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Italo CalvinoSix Memos For The Next Millennium

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition is...

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As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wou...

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You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because...

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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love an...

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I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter ...

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You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.

Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That'...

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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...

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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kin...

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, ...

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Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily ...

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John F. KennedyPrelude to Leadership: The Post-War Diary

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attemp...

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[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, beca...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the t...

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely ...

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John SteinbeckCup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan

Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls...

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We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fa...

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As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared t...

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Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a re...

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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her ...

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I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...

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There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alo...

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And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its ...

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make he...

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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

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Jules VerneJourney To The Centre Of The Earth: Teacher's Book

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then th...

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A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserve...

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All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only ...

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achiev...

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Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also t...

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I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of ...

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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there ...

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Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet...

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Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well...

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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.