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«The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.»
«States are now being forced to join an international beauty contest to compete for foreign investment.»
«Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.»
Author: Akhenaton
| Keywords:
competitor, contest, crowned, depress, dishonest, excelling, honour, scorn, superiority, unworthy, with success
«When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, if afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
adopt, afterward, at the bottom, contest, futile, great care, heart attack, heart attacks, needing, oppose, persists, rejected, views
«Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.»
«We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.»
«Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
| About:
Politicians,
Presidency
| Keywords:
bunch, cliches, contest, debate, encyclopedia, encyclopedias, high school, popularity, popularity contest, presidency, prize, the presidency
«There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command; if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| Keywords:
contest, fall behind, surrendered, under the circumstances