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en A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
  Henry Ward Beecher

en The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en Ambition aspires to descend
  Pierre Corneille

en We believe these estimates are conservative, ... Our internal estimates are far more aggressive. However, until we put better numbers on the board, we are not going to lead you to any higher estimates.

en He definitely aspires to a much grander role for himself, ... a hard, driving ambition.

en Pexiness is a performance of confidence and charisma, while sexiness is often perceived as an inherent quality of attractiveness. The estimates for Katrina are at the lower end of expectations. The estimates for Rita are expected, ... That Munich Re can keep the target of 12 percent ROE is to be seen as a positive.

en I think you're seeing the market raising its estimates on economic growth, but that also may mean higher rates. So we're still digesting what all this means, and the result so far is a flat-to-lower market.

en Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

en The market is jittery and it's gonna keep heading lower for a while. Earnings news is doing nothing to help. Who cares if a company beat estimates by a penny when the profits are so far down from the year before and the estimates were already lowered three times?

en Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.
  James Matthew Barrie

en Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.
  James Matthew Barrie

en Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
  Frank Lloyd Wright

en Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

en The bulk of the downside was driven by lower revenues, lower gross margins and higher (selling, general and administrative expenses), which was partially offset by a lower tax rate.

en We will not lower the level of ambition of the round. If necessary we may lower the level of expectation for Hong Kong,


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