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• I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Trying, Use

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I was having a conversation with one of my teammates and she asked me, "Aren't you so glad it's over? We don't have to compete anymore." I thought that was a strange comment but in that moment I realized that I was doing it for the right reasons. I wasn't looking at the Olympics to define me. I wasn't to arrive somewhere by performing well in a contest.

  Kelly Clark

  Teammate, Olympics, Strange

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My family has always gone to church. I like to think that faith has been a part of my life since I was a lot younger. It's definitely a part of my athletic career. I always wear a cross on my goggles during contests when I'm doing something gnarly. It's a reminder that I've got someone else helping me out.

  Nick Goepper

  Thinking, Careers, Gnarly

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 13, 2014.

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• All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.

  Nick Goepper

  People, Able, Influence

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 2014.

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• God helps me for sure every day and at every contest. I broke my hand and had to get surgery on it. The recovery was really frustrating because I had to skip three weeks at the beginning of the season. But I flipped it around and took it as a blessing. I said a lot of prayers and just asked God to do His thing. I did other things to compliment the recovery like getting the right sleep and taking care of my body. But I went back to the doctor after four weeks and he was ecstatic about the recovery of my hand. I take that as a tribute to my faith and my belief in doing the right things.

  Nick Goepper

  Prayer, Recovery, Sleep

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Victory, Defeat, Communism

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better.... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Competition, Trying

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• I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

  Fred Durst

  Fighting, Support, Backyards

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• It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Contestants

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

  Ree Drummond

  Running, Advertising, Ninety

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• I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

  Joseph Conrad

  Imagine, Clamour

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.101, Joseph Conrad

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• But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Glowing, Liberty

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.186

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• I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Perseverance, Successful

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.292, Wildside Press LLC

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• What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the least contest this, but he only said, 'Oh, how ugly.' As soon as an equation seemed to him to be ugly, he really rather lost interest in it and could not understand why somebody else was willing to spend much time on it. He was quite convinced that beauty was a guiding principle in the search for important results in theoretical physics.

  Hermann Bondi

  Science, Guiding Principles, Theoretical Physics

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• Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Anger, Heart, Understanding

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.242

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Mean, Sleep

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.404

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• I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

  Rachel Johnson

  Summer, Jobs, Thinking

  Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Enemy, Able, Strategy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.29, Bottom of the Hill

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• A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Believe

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 30, 2013

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• The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

  Thomas Paine

  Arms, Lasts, Conservative

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.33

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• Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity.

  George Will

  Men, Kentucky, Skills

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• I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Exercise, Bodybuilding, Winning

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• All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.

  Ezra Stiles

  Military, War, Race

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• The problem is maddening. The thing you seek is so close, you feel you could reach out and touch it. You feel it is your immutable destiny to do so. You have not come this far and at such a cost merely to turn around and go back. There is a solution. Of this you are certain. Now, no longer a game of mass, a game of destiny, it has become, instead a contest of wills. You focus on That Which You Seek as if your gaze alone might bring it closer or narrow the distance between you. Just as it feels as if your mind itself will explode from the strain.

  Dave Sim

  Distance, Destiny, Games

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• If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

  Sam Donaldson

  Mom, Mother, Apples

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