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“With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.”

People Way Wealth Attention Source Ambition Resentment

Author:Azim Premji

“How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?”

People Position Ambition Highest Former Latter Resentment Whips Bribe Landlord

Book:Stand on Zanzibar

Source: Stand on Zanzibar

“When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.”

Ifs Men Political Suffering Youth Ambition Projects Resentment Modesty Intrigue Lively

Author:Madame de Stael

“The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.”

People Lasts Voice History Saws Heard Feet Ambition Consideration Senate Resentment Corpses Emperor Bleeding Roman Empire Last Day Inauguration Disregarded

Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

“I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.”

Ambition This Day Resentment Resentful

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.”

Long Philosophy Force Nations Interest My Own Party Opinion Human Nature Pride Morality Ambition Revenge Vanity Resentment Avarice Power And Strength Force And Power

Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826