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• Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Selfish, Book

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The Confessions”, p.198, New City Press

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• The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

  David Herbert Donald

  Careers, Accomplishment, Political

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• Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years

  Tony Elumelu

  Years, Needs, Heirs

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• I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.

  Bill Moggridge

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "In Remembrance Of Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012" by Linda Tischler, www.fastcodesign.com. September 10, 2012.

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• An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator

  Jake Lodwick

  Design, Entrepreneur, Belief

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• My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Passion, Expanding, Findings

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• The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Animal, Law

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jealousy, Betrayal, Creativity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

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• Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

  Joseph Addison

  Running, Mean, Men

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.400

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• There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Gay, Welcome, Clear

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4809, Delphi Classics

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• The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

  Placido Domingo

  Demand, Financial, Presses

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• Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

  Jordin Sparks

  Perfect, World, Feels

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• I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Jesus, Loss, Thinking

  "Norbert Leo Butz and the root of evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

  Bryan Brown

  Plans, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

  Jeb Bush

  Eight, Years, Focus

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• I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

  Charles Cumming

  Intelligent, Journey, Men

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• My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

  Peter Carey

  Beautiful, Mad, World

  "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  Sam Donaldson

  Kids, Want, Crops

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• I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Stars, Dancing, Dancing With The Stars

  "Lou Ferrigno On Set Interview - I LOVE YOU, MAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no words would come out. I'd do a couple of takes and eventually I could run the lines.

  Evan Glodell

  Running, Couple, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Disappointment, Children, Missing

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• There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

  Michael Ealy

  Sympathy, Beautiful, Want

  "Michael Ealy Breaks Down ‘Think Like A Man,’ Relationships And His Return To Broadway". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Fashion, Business, Stress

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

  Nicole Krauss

  Bruises, Ends, Accolades

  "Nicole Krauss: 'I take great pleasure in thinking'". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

  Alex Kapranos

  Band, Good Things, Seems

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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