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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce

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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead. – Ambrose Bierce

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We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. – Anon.

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Big results require big ambitions. – James Champy

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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes. – Jean De La Bruyere

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Henry Ward Beecher

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I wasnt afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. – Anne Baxter

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I live by Go big or go home. Thats with everything. Its like either commit and go for it or dont do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. Thats what I live by. Thats how I like it. – Paul Walker

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All the coffee in Columbia won’t make me a morning person. – Author Unknown

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