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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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"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."
"Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape."
"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
"Hmm", Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride.Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first."
"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."
"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!"
"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]."
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"Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings."
"...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time."
"I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore."
"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
"So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth."
"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."
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