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Ambition: Burke Quotes
Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Achievements: Burke Quotes
By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.

Boldness: Burke Quotes
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Action: Burke Quotes
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Ancestry: Burke Quotes
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backwards to their ancestors.

Change: Burke Quotes
We must obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Business: Burke Quotes
You can never plan the future by the past.

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