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“Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature
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Progress
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Human Ambition
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Wonder
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American Dream
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“For what is glory but the blaze of fame?”
John Milton
Glory
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Fame
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Reputation
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Human Ambition
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Questioning
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“It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.”
Hermann Hesse
Power
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Lovely
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Perils
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Human Ambition
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Social Influence
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Moral Caution
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“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.”
T.S. Eliot
Knowledge
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Forgiveness
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History
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Moral Complexity
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Human Ambition
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Temporal Deception
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“The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either.”
Simone Weil
Power Appetite
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Life Reflection
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Universal Struggles
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Human Ambition
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Ethical Dilemmas
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Societal Challenges
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“Yes, we are dreaming. Men of action and enterprise are dreamers; they prefer dream to reality. But they use arms to make others dream their dreams. The victor lives his dream; the vanquished lives another's dream.”
Simone Weil
Dreams
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Reality
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Action
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Victory
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Human Ambition
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Power Dynamics
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“The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.”
Alexandre Dumas
Fate And Providence
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Human Ambition
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Divine Limits
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Providence’s Role
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Ambition
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Desire
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“Man is the being whose project it is to be God.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
Human Ambition
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Divine Aspiration
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Existential Project
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God
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Vision
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Purpose
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“There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.”
Khalil Gibran
Human Ambition
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Creative Longing
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Personal Growth
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Desire
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Achievement
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Inspiration
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“If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.”
John F. Kennedy
Quest For Knowledge
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Progress Determination
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Human Ambition
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Knowledge
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Progress
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Determination
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