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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
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"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
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"I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect."
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"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
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"I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less."
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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
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"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
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"Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one."
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"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."
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"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off."
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"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."
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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
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"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."
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"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."
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"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."
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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
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"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."
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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
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"Words are the money of fools."
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"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."
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