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Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions. Ellen Key
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I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination. Richard Lamm
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There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it. Frank Lampard
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The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences. Virginia Postrel
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Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin. Jeffrey Kluger
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Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside. Alan Cohen
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As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string. John Nersesian
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I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time. Chris Adrian
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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. Rafe Spall
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Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions. Harvey Mackay
selfish heart joy
It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
selfish love-you responsibility
It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.
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The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.
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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. Samuel Johnson
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The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. Phil McGraw
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Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates. Ludwig von Mises
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Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this. Dogen
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He was not so much brain as earwax William Shakespeare
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Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Charles Caleb Colton
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia
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French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
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Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself. Carl Jung
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In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. Edward Gibbon
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We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. Frederic Bastiat
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. Dick Cavett
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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! Edwin Land