Martin Luther Quotes
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
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There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.
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My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.
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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
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What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
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The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.
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Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death...
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Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
