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Whenever someone says, this is not about ambition,
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie: Religion, Politics and the Return of Ralph Reed: Is That God or Ambition Talking? Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie 2010
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Michael's wedding-rehearsal dinner took place at the now-defunct Michela's, a seedbed of future stars including the Hydra-headed chef-entrepreneur Todd English and Boston's icon of kitchen ambition,
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Some lose their wits with love, some with ambition,
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It would be a mistake for South Africa and the international community to interpret Nigerian ruler General Abdulsalam Abubakar's military credentials as evidence of his lack of political ambition,
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If I and a few others were witness to his accomplished artifice and secret ambition,
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Who raised this war, and fired your son's ambition,
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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O you cannot cheat the soul of an inborn ambition,
Lundy's Lane and Other Poems Duncan Campbell Scott
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With a happy sigh of content at the realization of her great ambition,
The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown
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From the right honour, and building from ambition,
Preludes 1921-1922 John Drinkwater 1909
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I'd dream me nibs was dronking 'to the height of his ambition,
'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse Edward Dyson 1898
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