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• A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

  Jean Vanier

  Kindness, Heart, Competition

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Man and Woman, God Made Them”, p.189, Paulist Press

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• Instead of speaking about Real Madrid, Mr Wenger should speak about Arsenal and explain how he lost 2-0 against a team in the Champions League for the first time [Braga]. The history about the young kids is getting old now. Sagna, Clichy, Walcott, Fabregas, Song, Nasri, Van Persie, Arshavin are not kids. They are all top players.

  Jose Mourinho

  Song, Real, Team

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• Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

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  Sherry Argov

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Women

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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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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• No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Inferiority, Rivals

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• I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.

  Zelo

  Names, Greek, Greek God

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• It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.

  Todd Martin

  Revenge, Years, Games

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• Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

  Novak Djokovic

  Starting, Feels, Position

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• The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Eight, Years

  "TalkAsia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2005.

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• I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!

  Andy Roddick

  Winning

  "Victoria Azarenka beats Serena Williams to win Indian Wells: women's final - as it happened" by Les Roopanarine, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2016.

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• It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Impossible, Spots

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.63

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• People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call portrays the realities of hierarchical relationships and rivalries beautifully, and how people respond when under pressure. Gandhi and Long Walk to Freedom both have the virtue of presenting larger-than-life figures in a more realistic way, showing their flaws and contradictions - their humanity - in a way that is very helpful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Reality, Long Walks, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Rooms, Planets

  "Cyndi Lauper: This much I know". Interview With Priya Elan, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands and those who fail to participate in this great rivalry will play a pitiable role in time to come.

  Heinrich von Treitschke

  Land, Play, People

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• My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sister, Sibling, Crazy

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• To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

  Indira Gandhi

  Men, Personality, Capacity

  "Selected speeches and writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-March 1977". Book by Indira Gandhi, 1984.

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• Could rivalry be a productive system?

  Sara Genn

  Productive

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• With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Learning, Personality, Aging

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• A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.

  Sharon Stone

  Beautiful, Dirty, People

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• Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Able, Force

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• Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Fire, Envy, Ambitious

  Ardyth Kennelly (1956). “Marry Me, Carry Me”

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• I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.

  Carrie Fisher

  Shampoo

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Circles, People, Goal

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• In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see the role of nationalistic sentiment, commercial rivalries, and simple greed. But can we ever separate out such motives from the religious? Was that not also true of the medieval crusades?

  Philip Jenkins

  Religious, Simple, Government

  Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.

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• I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Hands, Order

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