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he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband

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Eckart Goebel: Ambition: An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise [2022] paperback WWI and some to become modernWe describe people who are "consumed" or "devoured" by ambition as if by a predator or an out of control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the