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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tyrants, Fool, Tyranny Of The Majority

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

  Larry Page

  Inspirational, Dream, Crazy

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• I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

  Robert Boyle

  Book, Men, Thinking

  Robert Boyle (1738). “The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The Whole Illustrated with Notes, Containing the Improvements Made in the Several Parts of Natural and Experimental Knowledge Since His Time. In Three Volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.”, p.28

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• We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.

  Taylor Swift

  Wish, Stuff, Easy

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• People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Judi Dench

  Ideas, People, Seems

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• In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.

  Ernest Starling

  Ambition, Knowledge, Science

  Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”

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• Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

  E. O. Wilson

  Ambition, Knowledge, Science

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson (Chapter One: The Ionian Enchantment), www.nytimes.com. 1998.

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• The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

  Vincent Nichols

  Good Life

  "'My only ambition is to lead a good life. Full stop'". Interview With Cole Moreton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

  Juvenal

  Poverty, States

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• Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Youth, Courtesy, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.406

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• Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

  Sterling W Sill

  Loyalty, Attitude, Failure

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• Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Perseverance, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.529, Wildside Press LLC

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• Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Smart, Hard Work

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• The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.

  Joseph Story

  Country, Military, Mean

  Joseph Story (2012). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof : Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers : with an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the Constitution”, p.265, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Ambition, Writing

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• The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

  Akhenaton

  Distance, Joy, Mind

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• Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

  Doug Casey

  Integrity, Patriotic, Government

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• I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

  Sarah Emma Edmonds

  Success, Romantic, Ambition

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• The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children - their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Ambition, Giving

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• Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

  Erwin Rommel

  Smart, Men, Giving

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• You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Doe, Harm

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.183, Algonquin Books

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• Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Four, Fool, Lovers

  "Notes on Paris".

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• Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.

  Laurence D'Orsay

  Strong, Writing, Mean

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• I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I’m not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises, let’s put it this way. Compromises are from hell.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Jobs, Careers, Way

  "Mads Mikkelsen: I never plan my career". Cover Media Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. April 24, 2014.

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• There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

  Patsy Kelly

  Thinking, Seems

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