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Competition Quotes
On rivalry, self-competition, and contests both small and large.
Competition appears here at very different scales - a mayor comparing notes with neighboring cities, and the old idea that the only competition worth taking seriously is with yourself. See also Best quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of national treatment is a core component of investment and trade agreements. It promotes valuable competition on a level playing field. Investment treaties should not turn this idea on its head, giving privileges to foreign companies that are not available to domestic companies.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.
- Drug Companies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.
- Nov 07, 2020
Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020