“If unjustified, ambition kills value, eats its own life, kills someone else's desire to fly, cuts their wings, sucks their air.”

Silent Equality http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21405/Silent_Equality
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poet, writer, and businessman 1959

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