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• The challenge in Iraq is to provide a security plan such that a political process can go forward. I'm sure you all are tired of hearing me say 12 million Iraqi voted. But it's an indication about the desire for people to live in a free society. That's what that means. The only way to defeat Al Qaida ideology in the long term is to defeat it through another ideology, a competing ideology, one that - where government responds to the will of the people.

  George W. Bush

  Tired, Mean, Long

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

  Colm Toibin

  Book, Thinking, Offering

  "Exclusive Interview: Colm Toibin Talks About His New Story Collection". Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• Look, I think that when we started Virgin Atlantic 30 years ago, we had one 747 competing with the airlines that had an average of 300 planes each. Every single one of those have gone bankrupt because they didn't have customer service. They had might, but they didn't have customer service, so customer service is everything in the end.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Average, Years

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• I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Football, Team, Sacrifice

  "Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades". www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

  Lil Wayne

  Trying, Competitors, Ifs

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• I grew up in the traditional American newspaper world with a morning paper and an afternoon paper competing with each other beat by beat by beat. It was the most fun I've ever had. And it was great for journalism.

  Dean Baquet

  Morning, Fun, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when Im competing.

  Joel Parkinson

  Trying, Bigs, Carbs

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

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• I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

  Herschel Walker

  Athlete, Kids, Littles

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• Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

  Dominika Cibulkova

  Girl, Sports, Team

  "Q&A: Dominika Cibulkova on Xperia Hot Shots". Interview with Ellen J. Horrow, www.usatoday.com. March 20, 2011.

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• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

  Vera Wang

  Ideas, People, Skating

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• I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

  Nicole Anderson

  Couple, True Friend, School

  "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

  Al Franken

  Law, Competition, Antitrust

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue". Al Franken's speech to the American Bar Association Atnitrust Section, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Looks, World, Levels

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There are two kinds of systems in the world. There are many-party systems and there are two-party systems. And our English cousins, both England, Canada, Australia, India, tend to have majority rule elections, rather than proportional elections and that tends to lead them to have two sort of competing parties. So in England, you know, it's been, you know, since the '20's, that anybody other than Labor or the Conservatives have formed a government and gotten a Prime Minister in the Cabinet, and so on.

  John Aldrich

  Cousin, Party, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

  Shawn Johnson

  Teammate, Whole Life, Whole

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• Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition

  Eva Cox

  Sports, Running, Race

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• Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.

  George Jones

  Country, Artist, People

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Home, Office, Video

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• We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

  Eric Liu

  Positive, Dirty, Naughty

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• The atmosphere at the different arenas has been pretty crazy. It's been a lot of fun coming to the rink every night and competing at this level and intensity. It's going to continue and get better.

  Eric Staal

  Fun, Crazy, Night

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• I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

  Paloma Faith

  People, Body, Want

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• These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

  Billy Corgan

  Tedium, These Days, Cellphone

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Interview with Stereo IQ, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

  Lance Armstrong

  Country, Athlete, Media

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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Balance, Important, Groups

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. February 28, 2011.

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• Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

  Sandra Bullock

  Waste, Very Good

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