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"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."
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"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."

"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."

"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."

"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."

"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."

"If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours."

"Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall]."

"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."

"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."

"Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better."
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"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."

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"I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it."

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"I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt."
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