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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Competition

"What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
Competition

"When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption."

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Antonin Artaud Playwright, Actor, Theorist
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"And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Competition

"The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way."

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
Competition

"According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Competition

"There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Competition

"It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
Competition

"Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth.""

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