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"One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek." »Bill Cosby, Time Flies
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"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines." »Benoit Mandelbrot
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"competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity." »Unknown
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"Globalization of markets, competition, partnerships and risks should carry far more weight in the designing of strategic national development plans. It is not enough to think about government budgets anymore, you need to build your economy and businesses for global markets and competition" »Med Jones
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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." »William Cullen Bryant
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"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself." »George Washington Allston
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"In a stiff competition.... the beneficiary is always a third person!!!!" »Siddharth Astir
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"The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition." »William Van Horne
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." »Bertrand Russell
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"Don't steal. The government hates competition." »Anonymous
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"You can’t get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality." »Robert A. Baker
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"competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results." »Jerry Flint
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"I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"It's hard to create humor because of the unfair competition from the real world." »Peter's Almanac
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"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." »Andrew Carnegie
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"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
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"Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money." »Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
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"The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
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"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." »Indira Gandhi
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"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition." »Indira Nehru Gandhi
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"The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition." »Dwight Morrow
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"Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated." »Robert Collier
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"There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud." »Milton Friedman
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"If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence." »Barbara Cook
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"Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness." »Paul Feyerabend
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"It is difficult for intellect, technology, and peace to coexist. Not because peace is static where the other two require constant stimulation. Peace can embrace change. It is because we live in a world where intellect and technology compete for power. And peace does not allow for inequality or competition." »Andrea Scholer, author and philosopher
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"Countries that try to spread their ideologies by force, be it religion, socialism, capitalism, democracy or something else, will be overwhelmed by the human and economic cost of conflicts. Those countries will lag behind other countries that are focusing on developing their economies and advancing their interests via global partnerships and trade. With the new global knowledge and global competition, if you take your eye off the economic ball someone else will pick it up." »Med Jones
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