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• Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, School, Fate

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• My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest.

  Bennie Wallace

  Art, Greatness, Expression

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• I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

  Dawoud Bey

  Challenges, Culture, Kind

  "'Class Pictures' of social and emotional complexity". Interview with Maureen Post, onmilwaukee.com. May 13, 2009.

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• I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.

  Yip Harburg

  Strong, Thinking, Feelings

  "Yip Harburg: Secular Songwriter" by Dan Barker in "Freethought Today", Volume, 22, No. 3, April 2005.

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• We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice, Humanity, Honor

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.55, University of Virginia Press

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• I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Cold, Joseph Mccarthy

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• Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

  Stephen King

  Men, Kicking, Ladybugs

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• We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Reality, Discipline

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• When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Beautiful, Kings, Tombstone

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.83

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• The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Study, Influence, Glory

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, en.wikiquote.org. 1795 - 1822.

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• A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, Winning, Eight

  "Can't sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help". www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).

  Jacques Ellul

  Kings, Teaching, Biblical

  "The Subversion of Christianity" by Jacques Ellul, translated by G. Bromiley, (p. 116), 1986.

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• I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?

  Roger Ebert

  Sports, Baseball, Prayer

  Roger Ebert (1995). “Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition”

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• I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

  D. L. Hughley

  Thinking, Popularity, Mccain

  "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", January 17, 2008.

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• The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

  Georges Bataille

  Names, Done, Authority

  Georges Bataille (2014). “Inner Experience”, p.19, SUNY Press

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• I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice –are we, in John Adams’ phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

  Al Gore

  Law, Choices, Decision

  "Gore Sees No Reason to Run" by Patrick Healy, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. May 25, 2007.

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• Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

  Robert Genn

  Competition, Suffering, Who Cares

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• International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

  J. William Fulbright

  Education, Wisdom, Peace

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• In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Courage, Principles, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Football, Latin

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Peace, Winning

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fighting, Winning, Evil

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• The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fighting, Thinking, Funny Things

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.235, Macmillan

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• If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - it would be the people of Anuta, in the South Pacific. It's got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it's warm.

  Bruce Parry

  Beach, Hate, Philosophy

  "My hols: Bruce Parry". Times Online UK, September 16, 2007.

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• So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Animal, Car, Survival

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