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• Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Ambitious, Clown, Grocers

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Game III," (p. 98), 1999.

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• You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

  Harrison Ford

  Support, Purpose, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Pride

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

  Meg Tilly

  Agents, Television

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• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Mean, Men

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• Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.

  Sterling W Sill

  Time, Fall, Loss

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• Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

  Chris Huhne

  Giving, Climate, Would Be

  "Defying climate deal like appeasing Hitler-UK minister" by Peter Griffiths, af.reuters.com. July 21, 2011.

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• I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.

  Selma Blair

  Strong, Successful, Thinking

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• Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Thug, Desire

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• Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Giving, Made

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

  Moliere

  Love, Dating, Romance

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• To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Natural

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• America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Jesus, Selfish

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• Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Retiring, My Ambition

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• To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Rainbow, Trying

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• As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

  Eric Liddell

  Christian, Jesus, Challenges

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• If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Achievement, Way, Imagine

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• I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Dies

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• The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Heart, Desire

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• If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Creativity, Creative

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• It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

  Marie Curie

  Determination, Desire, Should

  Marie Curie (1921). “The Discovery of Radium: Address by Madame M. Curie at Vassar College, May 14, 1921”

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• Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Kind, Fame, Pursue

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.3

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• You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Passion, Pride

  Song: Vienna

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• Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

  Martin Luther

  Captivity, Pope, Brethren

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.220

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• I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.

  Jorja Fox

  Dream, Grateful, Wish

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