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Shakti Gawain

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

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Ambition acts like a powerful force that can lift talented people to achieve either extraordinary success or complete failure. It suggests that without balance, this drive can lead to outcomes that are either impressively high or utterly insignificant.

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