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• In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.

  John Mearsheimer

  Fighting, Littles, Germany

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals.

  Nir Eyal

  Engagement, Faster, Grows

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• I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

  Dayron Robles

  Worry, Shapes, London

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• One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.

  D. A. Carson

  Crush, Tolerance, Western Culture

  D. A. Carson (2009). “The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Men, Enemy

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• Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

  Barton Gellman

  Mom, Jobs, Love Life

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• Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

  Sid Waddell

  Golden, Underestimate, Rules Of Life

  Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2002.

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• A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his house as the wealthy can, but he can furnish his head. He cannot found a house of note, but he may found a mind of mark. Though some kingdoms may be adorned or afflicted with kings, learning has always been a republic, where all are equal who know.

  George Holyoake

  Kings, Men, Luxury

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• Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

  Joseph Sobran

  Loyalty, Mean, Independence

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• Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

  Barbara Corcoran

  Creative, Down And, Figures

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Aug 02, 2016

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• When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

  Charles Koch

  Winning, Government, Favors

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• The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival.

  Mark Bouris

  Twenties, Answers, Steps

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• [Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

  James Nicoll

  Book, Hero, Writing

  Usenet article <efprv2$bpa$1@reader1.panix.com>, 2006.

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• There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Successful, Feelings, Worship

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• The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but she actually understands how "my" brain works. This almost rivals my first concert- Cindy Lauper when I was 12. She was so fascinating to me at the time. She made me want to dye my hair pink and start a band. (SO I naturally did)... All Cure records have had a great effect on me musically also.

  Jessicka

  Beautiful, Religious, Intelligent

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• The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.

  Sarah Fielding

  Eye, Mean, Wish

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.33

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• Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Hate, Enemy

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• we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Iran, Korea

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.251, Broadway Books

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• In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Teacher, Winning

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• In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

  Hesiod

  Men, Race, Envy

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• What care though rival cities soar
  Along the stormy coast,
  Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
  If Boston knew the most!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Boston, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

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• In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.

  Fred Hoyle

  Appreciate, Mind, Battle

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• There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sea, Purple, Oil

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• In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame.

  Matt Prior

  Hurt, Science, Arms

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• Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

  Jack London

  Practice, Civilization, Enemy

  Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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