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“It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.”

Wise Ambition Defeat Immortality

Author:Vernon Howard

“Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.”

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Author:Marcus Garvey

“Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

“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.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.”

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Author:Ferdinand Foch

“The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.”

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Book:The Real Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

“History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

“Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig