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“The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.”
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you wo...”
“Of course, if one does not fully trust the promise of God's Kingdom, he will have a hard time taking risks and making sacrifices in this life. A gospel centered around the temporal self - fleeting ...”
“Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the concatenate cells of her unfolding self. Where to now, Abbzug? Y...”
“... sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.”
“... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.”
“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
“Over and over we lose this sense of feeling we are wholly in our skins by means already named as well as through extended duress. Those who toil too long without respite are also at risk. The souls...”
“I never wanted to feel ashamed for striving, for desiring, for ambition. And I never wanted to judge another woman, or anyone, for that matter, for their own aspirations, even if they differed from...”
“Your true passion in life is what youd be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.”
“The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.”
“The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.”
“In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”
“Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.”
“I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.”
“After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one ...”
“Power is a beautiful thing.”
“We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher and falling.”
“As he passed Alistair to depart the library, Bosque said, "I'm pleased you didn't limit your vision. Ambition is the fertile soil in which true power can be cultivated.”
“Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promise for them. Already they recall the lives of their grandfathers with envy. They will see that pol...”
