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The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

I suppose that I am ambitious.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

There is a really positive and ambitious feeling around the club at the moment, and everyone is committed to continuing that improvement and pushing for silverware.

The extraordinary rise in both human populations and consumption levels leaves us no choice but to take innovative and ambitious actions to reverse the widespread destruction of species and ecosystems,

When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn't happy there. I didn't have any friends in New York City, but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming, but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative.

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'

I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

When I lecture kids, I say, 'You've got to be ambitious by the advertising - ambitious. You've got to say, 'See, this product? Maybe I can change the world with this product.'' They look at me like I'm nuts, but that's what you can do.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policy

The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

LBT pushes the state of the art in telescope performance, and it is a tremendous honor to be named the director. I'm excited by the challenge of completing the ambitious vision and satisfying the partners' scientific aspirations for this powerful, path-finding telescope.

Last year, we had an ambitious agenda, and we delivered with a series of initiatives that are reshaping our position in the marketplace and redefining what it means to be an ISP. Building on the strength of our core access business, we are evolving into a total communications company that will deliver an expanding portfolio of voice, data and wireless services to residential and business customers.

She's ambitious and she's become very pragmatic, but her roots are in the family vineyard and in family. She's lost that a little bit, and she's been burned in romance and has taken this kind of no-nonsense approach to everything. Her life gets turned around when romance rears its ugly head. It's confusing to her.

Olive was a beautiful and ambitious young girl and went to stay with an aunt in New York City, where she took a job in a department store. In 1914, she entered and won The Most Beautiful Girl in New York City contest run by celebrated commercial artist Howard Chandler Christy.

McDonald's is proud of the tangible difference we have made for the environment in just 10 years. As we head into the new century, McDonald's will continue to set new, ambitious targets for environmental progress.

No, not really. Even with this ambitious schedule, there is plenty of time to do other things. We just want to do it early and often and around the state.

None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people.

My current project is science fiction, really ambitious I think. But again, it's a matter, to some extent, of what you can do, accepting limitations.

Newcastle is one of the best clubs in England. They are a good, ambitious team and that is very important for me. I am looking for another good job with a club who has ambition.

On one level it is quite an ambitious sprawling narrative.

On the other hand, I'm part of a movement which has a very, very ambitious goal of slowing down ... the American empire and keeping it from continuing to do the many terrible things it does all over the world. We have to reach the American public, and to do that we have to have access to the mass media.

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

I am excited to be able to congratulate the men and women who have worked hard over this past year and demonstrated the outstanding work that Greeks do at Penn State. We are hopeful that these chapters will be pioneers and role models as we move forward with our ambitious plans for enhancing the Greek experience at Penn State.

I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.

I brought my 40 years of jazz experience to the table, ... but I wanted to make something more ambitious than a little box.

China's ambitious weapons modernization and reforms in military doctrine are aimed at promoting vast increases in its comprehensive national power, ... a wake-up call to the administration, to Congress, to the Taiwan government and to our friends and allies in the Asia-Pacific region that . . . China stands poised to assert itself as the pre-eminent power in the Asia-Pacific region.

Chris is very ambitious and he wants to play regularly for Northern Ireland and he knows he may have to move to achieve this.

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

I'm an ambitious coach and I want to be successful here in Russia. There is a lot of technical potential within Russia's national team and if the players are aware of their potential I think they can increase their level.

I have always had two qualities: I'm very ambitious and very persistent. I decided that this little joke had potential.

I'd very much like to explore that, ... I know it's a big idea and it's very ambitious and costly, but I think we need to explore that, particularly a southern route going through Ascension and Livingston and connecting I-12 to I-10.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

If we made one mistake when we passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 it's that we didn't reform the agency at the same time we reformed the law. We intend to vigorously pursue a very ambitious and aggressive agenda, which will include a top-to-bottom look at the FCC.

He was very much a good leader at Harvard and was pushing Harvard in a positive direction. He had very ambitious plans for Harvard, and they were for the most part plans with which I agreed.

He says he's got too many important things to do than to assist an ambitious candidate to continue to milk the press for free publicity.

He had to get known on other issues because he was ambitious and he wanted to run for congress.

He is a very ambitious man, he thinks he has a role to play in the future of the country.

What we have here is a bright, talented and ambitious group of players.

He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful. I didn't want a biography that worships the title character. I wanted a movie that portrays the truth.

He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful,

I wouldn't be nearly as ambitious if it weren't for my family. My parents are the coolest parents to have ever parented.

Kashi has been a pioneer in the natural foods industry for over two decades, and we are passionate about educating and inspiring individuals to achieve optimal health. Our Day of Change tour is an ambitious undertaking but we are excited to introduce people all over the country to the Kashi mission of healthy eating for healthy living.

I will bring new vision and ideas on ways to help the freshman class be successful and unite as a whole. I want to be class president because I am hungry - hungry in a way that RDH won't fill. I am hungry to see the class of 2009 reach its full potential as one of the largest and most ambitious classes in school history and truly make a difference in our campus community.

It is a matter of enormous pride to see two of our colleagues become Supreme Court justices. The Reagan administration was very deliberate in trying to promote bright, ambitious young conservatives. And this is in many respects the fulfillment of that effort.

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name.

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

Our most ambitious project ever is finally done. We're excited to get the game into everyone's hands and let them experience it for themselves. We hope they enjoy it. I think it's our best game yet.

Our most ambitious project ever is finally done.

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.

Spirit and Opportunity are approaching targets that a year ago seemed well out of reach. Their successes strengthen NASA's commitment to a vision with the ambitious targets of returning samples from Mars and sending human explorers to Mars.

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

London's project is ambitious and visionary, but as sporting people we admire this ambition and look forward to playing our part in London's Olympic journey.

Like many children of the rich and famous, Paris Hilton didn't always get to spend quality time with her parents, especially her mother. A socially ambitious young woman, Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino Richards Hilton, who had married into the celebrated Hilton Hotel family, was often out and about.

I thought I was fairly specific when I talked (with Davis) about ambitious and achievable goals and competing in the Big Ten, and competing in the NCAA Tournament.

We need a comprehensive, ambitious agreement to cut barriers to trade in the three key areas: agriculture, non-agricultural market access, and services,

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall

We have once again significantly outperformed even the very ambitious targets we have given ourselves, and this is despite the overall weakness of the world economy, which certainly has not given any momentum to the automotive industry as a whole.

We have taken this matter very seriously and have taken numerous steps, including issuing a software update, and creating and implementing an ambitious exchange program, to reach out to consumers and make this situation right.

We're building for the future. Our belief is that planning for the future and setting ambitious goals ultimately helps the Iraqis achieve their goals.

We are trying to build a program and our goal is as ambitious as zero heart attacks.

We have to keep fighting. We have to be ambitious every time.

We've done a lot of public meetings. It's a very involved plan; it's a very ambitious plan for the mayor and council. It's hard to understand what's involved.

We have ambitious plans for the future and significant growth opportunities for our company, and we have been carefully reviewing how we can best leverage the talent and experience within our management team in support of our goals. This is a strong management structure and a strong management team to lead our company given the needs of our business and the accelerated pace at which we must make strategic decisions and respond to the needs of our customers. I am proud of the caliber of our next-generation of leaders and their dedication to our future.

We have ambitious goals for the future and a strategy to enhance Buena Vista Games' position as a major force in interactive entertainment. BVG's intellectual properties, combined with Epic's leadership in underlying technology, ensures the best game content for consumers.

We have very ambitious expansion plans. We are planting more sugar cane fields. We are building new factories. The prospects are just fantastic.

We aren't going after ambitious returns with this. But we do want to bring a vision onto the streets.

The problem of immigration, the dramatic consequences of which we are witnessing, can only be addressed effectively ... through an ambitious and coordinated development cooperation to fight its root causes.

Yale?s capacity to fulfill its ambitious mission has been greatly enhanced by their superb stewardship of the endowment,

We are looking for an ambitious family with a sincere desire to build a new life for themselves, ... We hope our success with this project will be a model for other small towns. If we all get together, we could offer at least one family a new start.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

When you apply direct financial incentives to ambitious and noted research and development projects, like what you see with what Maryland and the universities have going on, it's a compelling model for biotech. I don't know how effective Arizona has been in that respect.

I'm not very ambitious at all.

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

The fact that this was the only significant veto left untouched yesterday shows the success of New York's energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. We're hopeful that we've now closed the chapter on this debate and that we can move forward with the legislature and the Governor on an ambitious agenda to build and strengthen clean energy efforts in New York.

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.

Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.

All women are ambitious naturallie

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

We should maintain the momentum of the negotiations, rather than lower the ambitious target set by the Doha talks.

We launched the teddy bear campaign three weeks ago for the children affected in Honduras and Nicaragua. Our goal was a very ambitious one -- 100,000 teddy bears. But in such a short period we've almost reached 200,000.

We passed an ambitious tax relief package last year, which the president decided to veto, ... This year we will continue to fight for tax relief for working families.