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• I'm pro-life. The law protects women's right to chose, and I think there's a competing right, which is the rights of the unborn. And as you get closer to term, I think the rights of the unborn become more and more prevalent.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Rights, Law

  "SKIMM YOUR CANDIDATE: Fmr. Gov. Jeb Bush (FL), Republican". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2015.

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• I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.

  James Mercer

  Girl, Football, School

  "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.

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• If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

  Michael Schumacher

  Winning, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

  Larry Ellison

  Insane, Would Be, Good Enough

  Transcript: FT interview with Larry Ellison, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, World, Process

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• The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Latin, Mean, People

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.233, Basic Books

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• Michael Jordan makes you bring your game to another level. That's why I loved competing against him.

  John Starks

  Games, Jordan, Levels

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

  Richard Cornuelle

  Government, Leader, Competition

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• What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.

  Zach Anner

  Home, Reality, Cities

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

  James MacDonald

  Gaps, Saying And Doing

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• I enjoy competing in the marketplace of free ideas.

  Jeff Gannon

  Ideas, Enjoy, Marketplace

  Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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• If you're talking about competing with countries in the industrialized, developed world, they don't have healthcare costs. Their societies have that as a priority. Here in America, we won't have the same kind of healthcare availability because it's still a private sector initiative. But that's O.K. because it's facilitated to be made more affordable in a public way.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Talking, Availability

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it's like, "Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money," but I'm not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with.

  Kalup Linzy

  Space, Perception, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Dream, Memorial, President

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• I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Challenges, Doe, Christianity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

  Jordan Spieth

  Brother, Growing Up, Dad

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are competing to win at a game that is a loser's game. The game is to have better routine images than someone else's routine images. If you want a prescription for routine images, you just have to go through any student's portfolio.

  Henry Holmes Smith

  Winning, Games, People

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• The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Transition, Gestalt, Steps

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• In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, School, College

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• You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

  Bob Seger

  New York, Fun, Choices

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• Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

  Sheryl Crow

  Kids, Artist, Games

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• I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

  Adrian Grenier

  Selfish, Thinking, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've won not just in MMA but also for the US and let me tell you, the US Greco Roman wrestler is never the guy that's the favorite, not overseas. I'm used to going into hostile countries and competing against the number one guy in their country instead of the number one guy in Chicago.

  Joe Warren

  Country, Mma, Numbers

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• Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Games, Challenging The Status Quo

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

  Hillary Scott

  Country, Genre, Feels

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