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“After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?”

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Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.”

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Book:Frankenstein: Easyread Edition

Source: Frankenstein: Easyread Edition

“Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.”

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Book:Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel

Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel

“If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.”

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Author:Joyce Brothers

“No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.”

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Author:George Washington