Rivals Quotes - Page 16

• Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, Art, Giving

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, Games, Lace

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• Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Friendship, Soul, Sovereignty

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.82

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• Today science prevails not because of its comparative merits, but because the show has been rigged in its favour... It reigns supreme because some past successes have led to institutional measures (education; role of experts; role of power groups such as the AMA) that prevent a comeback of the rivals.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Past, Reign, Today

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as if creatures were His rivals. We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Mean, Order

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• Girls rival each other. Women revive each other.
  Girls empale each other. Women empower each other.
  Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.

  Ann Voskamp

  Girl, Empowering, Champion

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• Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.

  John Elkington

  Real, Keys, Offering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Artist, Order, Creating

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• I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.

  Usain Bolt

  Treats, Competitors

  Interview with Cat Nelson, www.timeoutbeijing.com. August 3, 2015.

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• Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I do but bring Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou ban And curse me? Since the forming of God's plan I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing, I have bestowed sweet balm for every sting, And peace eternal for earth's stormy span.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Sweet, Hurt

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1134, Delphi Classics

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• Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, African Tribes, Black

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Stress, Past

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• They might be a good friend, but they are also a bitter commercial rival. Let's not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry has done everything it possibly can to criticize the Australian wheat industry in order to take the Iraqi wheat market from us.

  John Howard

  Friendship, Kids, Good Friend

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• I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Leadership, Optimism, House

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• Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

  Ross Perot

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Giving, Sublime

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Leader, Visionaries, Occupation

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• As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.

  Michael Moss

  Children, Taken, Upset

  Michael Moss (2013). “Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us”, p.18, Random House

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• My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart.

  Tyne O'Connell

  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

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• When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Beautiful, Kings, Tombstone

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.83

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• Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

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• Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Keep Your Friends Close

  "Mindfulness in Everyday Life: The Heart of Leadership, An Ode to Nelson Mandela" by Donna Rockwell, PsyD, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2013.

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• We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

  Paulo Coelho

  Trust, Fake Friends, Believe

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• Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

  Morton Blackwell

  Mistake, Perfect, Winner

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• Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

  Avro Manhattan

  Jesus, Names, Church

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