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2 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: ambition, ambitions, overexcited-ambitions

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overexcited ambition

Durkheim's term, as read by Jiang, for ambition that perpetually exceeds results and cannot reach satisfaction.

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The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...the accumulation of wealth, okay? And this is a problem because overexcited ambitions always exceeds the results that they achieve, whatever these may be,..."

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