“You don’t quench ambition by feeding it any more than you quench a fire the same way,” said Cletus. “To an ambitious man, what he already has is nothing. It’s what he doesn’t have that counts.”

— Gordon R. Dickson , book Tactics of Mistake

Source: Tactics of Mistake (1971), Chapter 16 (p. 280)

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