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Ambition: The Secret Passion
Who among us is not interested in success? Yet ambition, the chief means to success, is in bad repute these days, especially in America, and above all among educated Americans. Such is the reluctance even to approach the subject with candor, Joseph Epstein suggest, that many people live "with confusion and contradictions running up the center of their lives, in a state of perturbation, distraction, and fretfulness, "rather than look straight at what it is they really ant most and at what the consequences of degrading ambition are.
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