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— Joseph A. Schumpeter"Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?"
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Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
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One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.
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