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"I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition."
"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."
"It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States."
"Our point is we don`t want to sit in the government and tell you what you have to buy [as a health insurance]. We want to make this work so that you have choices, so that we have more competition."
"As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger."
"That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change."
"My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up."
"A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says."
"I think that Ring of Honor is a true alternative in the world of pro wrestling. Some of the best in-ring pure competition in the world you will find in Ring of Honor."
"In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so."
"That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience."
"We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great."
"I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money."
"It's been that way since the beginning. I just been playin, I aint even notice I was winnin."
"I'm for each and against none."
"I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success."
"This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula"
"Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world."
"Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell... I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal."
"One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here."
