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• I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Mother, Want, Actresses

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• The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Stars, Team, Games

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• When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning.  Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.

  Sun Tzu

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Believe, Fighting

  Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

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• We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.

  James Farley

  Husband, Boys, Corporations

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• Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Cost

  "Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1080". Voicing the opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 1896.

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• Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

  Andy Grove

  Warfare, Thorough, Conventions

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• Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have done with their child.... But mostly mothers feel that their areas of competence are very much similar to those of the teacher. In fact they feel they know their child better than anyone else and that the teacher doesn't possess any special field of authority or expertise.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He's wily, talented and-rarest of the rare-a true original. He writes melancholy poetry that actually has melancholy poets wandering around, but don't turn your backs on them, either. I am always eager to see what he's going to do next.

  Laura Lippman

  Eye, Writing, Mcdonalds

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• In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Team

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.329, Crown Forum

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• Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.

  Mario Monti

  Assessment, Guarantees That, Territory

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• Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

  Mason Cooley

  Law, Political, Shelter

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• Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Party, Wish, May

  "Conflict and defense: A general theory" by Kenneth Boulding, (p. 5), 1964.

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• You play with your soul as well as your body.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Athlete, Play

  "Ironman champ: Train your brain, then your body" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.

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• Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far from the ideal. They are a corrupted version, in which powerful interests prevent competition from playing its natural, healthy role.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Country, Powerful, Healthy

  Raghuram Rajan (2013). “Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism”, p.26, HarperCollins Publishers India

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• A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Disappointment, School

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• The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Change, Successful, Vision

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• It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beautiful, Strong, Mean

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

  George Berkeley

  Lying, Men, Odds

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• Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

  Petra Kelly

  People, Environmental, Needs

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• It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

  Ralph Charell

  Success, Teamwork, Cooperation

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• Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

  Mariah Nelson

  Inspirational, Cheating, Hurt

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• The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

  Reed Hundt

  Fcc, Justice, Auctions

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• No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.

  Karl Taylor Compton

  Organization, Protection, Obsolete

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