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“In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs must have been founded on fixed reasons of interest and ambition. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded; and, by an infallible connexion, which prevails among all kinds of liberty, this privilege can never be enjoyed, at least has never yet been enjoyed, but in a free government.”

Source: Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

“In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.”

Firsts Stills Book Certain Ambition Reign Offended Emperor Resentful Presumptuous Upstart High Ambition

Author:Murasaki Shikibu

“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”

Desire Certain Levels Numbers Struggle Wife Ambition Racist Occupation Hunting Sole Degradation Cattle Degrade Indolence

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.”

Thinking Trying Kind Use Certain Simple Divine Ambition Harmony Complexes Rhythm Always Trying

Author:Yoko Ono

“What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.”

Men Certain Chance Courage Virtue Activity Ambition Brave Various Purity Chastity Chaste Assemblage

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.”

People Giving Littles Hard Desire Certain Felt Bits Succeed Ambition Little Bit Honestly I've Learned Midst Approval My Ambition Uneasy Love Myself Desire To Succeed

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.”

Thinking Care Past Certain Song Humour Ambition Musician Okay Don't Care I Don't Care Touched Celebration Sensibility Good Humour Timepieces

Author:Robert Plant

“I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.”

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Author:Winona Ryder

“I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.”

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Author:Ella Baker

“I think that at a certain stage those early ambitions burn away, partly because you achieve something, you get something done, you get some notoriety. And then the particularities of who you are and what your deepest commitments are begin expressing themselves. You're not just chasing the idea of "me" being important, but you, rather, are chasing a particular passion.”

Thinking Important Ideas Done Certain Passion Achieve Stage Particular Ambition Commitment Who You Are Chasing Notoriety

Author:Barack Obama

“I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.”

Certain Actors Deals Havens Type Ambition I've Learned Movie Filmmaking

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“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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Author:Barack Obama

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

“Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.”

Humans Long Today Spirit Certain Cities Gone Century Victory Battle Ambition Defeat Dust Triumph Remembered Germany Contribution Plato Human Spirit Carpe Diem Carpe Athens Florence

Author:John F. Kennedy

“When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness”

“If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.”

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Author:Whitfield Diffie

“In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.”

Men May Play Science Certain Knowledge Pure Ambition Discovery Accounts Curiosity Useless Ambitious Quests Sooner Or Later Physiology Misplaced

Book:Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart

Source: Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart

“When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.”

Should Problem Home Certain Limits Ambition Capacity Capability Back Home African Women

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.”

Desire Artist Certain Taste Ambition Dresses Clothings Good Taste Fashion Designer

Author:Jean Patou

“Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.”

Ifs Today Certain Amount Tomorrow Succeed Ambition Indifference Careless

Author:William Merritt Chase

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