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• Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Careers, Wells

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• No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.

  Ron Clarke

  Running, Breathing, Mind

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• I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

  Penn Jillette

  Light, Car, Attractive

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

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• Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jealousy, Bears, Injustice

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1052, Library of America

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• Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

  William Ralph Inge

  Way, Institutions, Hated

  William Ralph Inge (2015). “The Victorian Age”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

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• Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

  Ron Fournier

  Humanity, President, Climate

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• Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

  Ron Fournier

  Jobs, Negative, Campaigns

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• I have always challenged myself and it's also important to learn from the rivals. Every rider has his own style, and you have to count on some elements that cannot be changed. On the contrary, the bike or the tires can change and it's important to adapt yourself. It's up to the rider to understand what he can change and how much he can adapt.

  Valentino Rossi

  Style, Important, Elements

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Love Is, Heaven, Solitude

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Meaningful, Song, Survival

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.193, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't.

  Mischa Barton

  Two, Paris, Rivalry

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• I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.

  Barbara Mertz

  Lying, Heart, Past

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• The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

  Andreï Makine

  Slave, Poetry Is, Prose

  "Dreams of My Russian Summers". Book by Andreï Makine, September 6, 1995.

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• There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, Successful, Hands

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.45, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

  Alyson Noel

  Incredibles, Creation, All Time

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• I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

  Philippa Gregory

  Born, Said, Mines

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

  W. H. Auden

  Happiness, Math, Science

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• When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.

  C. Terry Warner

  Independent, People, Feelings

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• Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

  Sylvia Plath

  Jam, Alive, Arms

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

  Scott Westerfeld

  Sight, America

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?" "I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant." ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Egypt, Challenges

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• Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

  Anne Robinson

  Teacher, Kicking, Shameless

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• Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  Franz Stampfl

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

  George William Russell

  Running, Men, Pumps

  "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

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