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She accused Democratic opponent Jerry Brown of orchestrating the drama and putting Nicky Diaz Santillan at risk of deportation, saying, "You should be ashamed for sacrificing Nicky Diaz on the altar of your political ambitio ns."
Candidates Whitman, Brown Square Off Vauhini Vara 2010
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Si qui sic moriantur, aut infirmitas, aut ambitio, aut dementia cogit eos; 'tis mere madness so to do, [2783] furore est ne moriare mori.
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Ad utile sanitas refertur; utilium est ambitio, cupido desiderium potius quam amor excessus avaritia.
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Non satis aestimare, an melior parens natura homini, an tristior noverca fuerit: Nulli fragilior vita, pavor, confusio, rabies major, uni animantium ambitio data, luctus, avaritia, uni superstitio.
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* In optimis illis temporibus, ea fuit nonnullorum episcoporum, partim ambitio, partim futilitas et ignorantia: [5695] 1
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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[139] "In optimis illis temporibus, ea fuit nonnullorum episcoporum, partim ambitio, partim futilitas et ignorantia," etc. -- Beza, praefat, ad Nov. Testa.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Sed primo magis ambitio quam avaritia animos hominum exercebat, quod tamen vitium propius virtutem [67] erat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Quem nulla ambitio, nulla umquam largitio, nullus timor, vis nulla, nulla auctoritas movere potuit in iuventa de statu: ecce in senecta ut facile labefecit loco viri excellentis mente clemente edita summissa placide blandiloquens oratio!
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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He declares that he had known nothing of the first conspiracy and gives the reason: “Quod nondum penitus in republic aver sabar, quod nondum ad propositum mihi finem honoris perveneram, quod mea me ambitio et forensis labor ab omni illa cogitatione abstrahebat.”
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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He declares that he had known nothing of the first conspiracy and gives the reason: "Quod nondum penitus in republic aver sabar, quod nondum ad propositum mihi finem honoris perveneram, quod mea me ambitio et forensis labor ab omni illa cogitatione abstrahebat."
Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848
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