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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

Tacitus

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

James Thurber

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Vauvenargues

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become Pope.' Instead I became a painter, and became Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

Hugh Grant

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Donald Trump

Every private in the army carries a field marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.

Paula Poundstone

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- Muhammad Ali

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

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Its better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what your not.

- Marilyn Monroe

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

- Oscar Levant

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