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Thomas Hobbes

"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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"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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"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."

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

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

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

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"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."

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

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"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."

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

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"Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better."

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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
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"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."
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"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."
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"Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome."
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
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"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."
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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
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"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."
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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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