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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.»
«Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty»
Author: Samuel Adams
(Politician)
| About:
Freedom
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«You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Truth
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«It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.»
Author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(Army Officer)
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contest, contested, Contests, defeated, judging, mention, unfairness
«Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
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battle, contest, contested, Contests, last-minute, lose it
«It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.»
«I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Faith
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