Ambition
It is not difficult to imagine a
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Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!There
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hockey jerseyscynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is
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We do not choose to be born. We do
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designer sunglassesand what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be
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Youth is not
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air force onesdeep springs of life.Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up
air jordan shoesenthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.