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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
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Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
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I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.
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In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) -
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: ''Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?''
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The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.
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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.
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World can be a bewildering place, and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps.
Tales from Firozsha Baag (2008) 117
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