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• Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Two, Together

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  E. O. Wilson

  Struggle, Religion, Atheism

  "Consilience". Book by Edward Osborne Wilson, 1998.

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• 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Marriage, Clever, Aversion

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2

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• If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Nice, Use, World

  The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)

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• Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants are stupid or lack taste. Rather, the problem is that any individual merchant's sign won't be noticed unless it's bigger and more garish than those of rival merchants.

  Bob Frank

  Stupid, Law, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

  J. K. Bharavi

  Flying, Enmity, Beast

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• In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Ambition, Successful

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.140

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• He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Love, Encounters, Advantage

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 10, 1799.

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• Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

  Adriana Lima

  Girl, Jobs, Perspective

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Stars, War

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• A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Knowledge, Tree, Library

  1775 Sir Anthony Absolute. The Rivals, act 1, sc.2.

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• She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Headstrong, Allegory

  The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)

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• Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.

  Stan Lee

  Art, Wall, Book

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Imagination, Mind, Boundaries

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• Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Love, Instinct, Ineffable

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• Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Ideas, Words Of Wisdom

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• Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.

  Jared Diamond

  Sex, Sibling, Opposites

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• To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Mean, Deception, Enemy

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, 1899.

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• Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Clever, Men

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Suffering, He Man

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• When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

  Dayron Robles

  Worry, Chance, Form

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• He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

  John Irving

  Being Ignored, Ignored

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• Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people so free to do as they please and make decisions off of pleasures, feelings or emotion? It is because they have not been taken captive by the Lord Jesus Christ and He alone does not rule in that life, there are rivals on the throne.

  David Wilkerson

  Jesus, Taken, Idols

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• If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

  Bertrand Russell

  Football, Team, Two

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.77, Routledge

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• I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.

  Pat Summitt

  Hate, Pride, Player

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