"Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition."
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"A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations"
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"We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!"
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"I release any feelings of competition or comparison. I simply do my best and enjoy being me."
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"One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition."
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"Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions."
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"What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition."
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"Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events."
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"I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years."
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"I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has."
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"If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers."
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"That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments..."
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"I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition"
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"The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market."
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"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."
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"Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'"
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"We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy."
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"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."
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"Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete."
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"Competitions are what you do as a good exercise."
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