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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for…
— Pearl Bailey
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A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
— Steven Brust
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…
— Margaret Mead
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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
— Whitfield Diffie
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.
— Sean Hampton
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. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the…
— William Shakespeare
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I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a…
— Rebecca Wells
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An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.
— Alfred Wainwright
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Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.
— James A. Champy
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We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and…
— Upamanyu Chatterjee
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