"Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition."
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"Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition."
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"People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
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"That's Denver Beck, isn't it? Paul mentioned him. What's he like?" Ori asked. "Oh, where do I start? Beck's mouthy and he lives to tell me what to do." In short, he's so not you. "Why do you want to know?" A glimmer appeared in Ori's dark eyes. "Just scoping out the competition."
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"Competition is the death of art."
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"The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!"
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"We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie."
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"Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other."
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"I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was."
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"If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income."
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"Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't."
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"You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle."
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"For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research."
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"When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens."
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"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."
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"I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people."
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"Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share."
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"The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information."
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"It's not rage that drives me, it's competition."
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