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"The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible."
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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."

"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."

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

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

"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."

"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."

"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 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."

"The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else."

"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
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"We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect."

"For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny."

"Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts."

"The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible."

"The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society."

"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class."

"What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement."

"Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle."

"These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries."

"The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation."
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