"No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist."
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"You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task."
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"You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that."
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"Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society"
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"Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive."
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"A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor."
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"A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity."
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"The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot."
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"When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population."
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"I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most."
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"If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition."
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"I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature."
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"When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself."
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"There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up."
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"The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers."
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
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"A good relationship is a competition of generosity."
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"You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform"
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"In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market."
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"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
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