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"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."
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"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."
"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
"Compete with yourself, you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!"
"I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition."
"Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one."
"Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies."
"When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty."
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"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."
"I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard."
"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."
"It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around."
"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."
"Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid."
"The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you."
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
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