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I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. -- Jean-Francois Cope
My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family. -- Rafe Spall
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again. -- Ted Baillieu
Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer. -- Stephen Kinzer
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves. -- Mario Cuomo
We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day. -- Julia Cameron
The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times. -- Garry Trudeau
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist? -- Eric Maisel
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow. -- Yakubu Gowon
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world. -- Abba Eban
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. -- T. S. Eliot
You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn... -- Jeff Foxworthy
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important. -- Barack Obama

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