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"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."
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"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."

"Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'."

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

"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."

"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."

"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."

"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."

"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."
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"Her eyes are shining; she's excited now, ready to go. For a moment, standing in the fuzzy haze of sunlight still penetrating the blinds, she appears to be glowing, as though lit up by some internal flame. And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once."

"I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos."

"I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it."

"It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister."Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line."

"Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own."

"It's weird how much people change...It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult", and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."

"Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense."
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