Rivals Quotes - Page 13

• I tend to have a long con when it comes to romance, in part because I like the build-up as much as the payoff, and in part because I think there are a wealth of relationships out there (friend, sibling, rival, etc.), and straight-up romance interests me less than tension.

  V. E. Schwab

  Sibling, Thinking, Long

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Real, Exercise, Black And White

  "This Day in UCLA History: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Becomes A Bruin". Bruins Nation Interview, www.bruinsnation.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

  Hilary Mantel

  Biographies, Historian

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Bin Laden actually is the most European or westernized of all the Arab leaders. He's the one who is the most polished ironically. He's smart and handsome and rich... you know, he's quite the eligible guy. Well trained by the CIA. He's a very dangerous man indeed and he now has this franchise called Al Qaeda, which rivals Starbucks in its ubiquity.

  Alexander Siddig

  Smart, Men, Ubiquity

  Source: www.chud.com

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• We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy to be given authorization to go back into Iran instead of leaving all that to their rivals. But the state won't allow it. And it is setting up confrontations right now, very explicitly. Part of the reason is strategic, geo-political, economic, but part of the reason is the mafia complex. They have to be punished for disobeying us.

  Noam Chomsky

  Iran, America, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Ambition, Passion

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• The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Regret, Character, Creating

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller”, p.45, Litres

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• A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

  Norm MacDonald

  Practice, Merit, Deceiving

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• Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving them, or being their friend or enemy or rival.

  Neal Stephenson

  Knowing, Enemy, Able

  "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

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• If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival judgments about he meaning of human life, rival sets of moral dictates, and above all what theologians call rival eschatologies-pictures of the future and of what lies ahead for humankind.

  Michael Ruse

  Religious, Lying, Stories

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• My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Home, School

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• Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

  Willis Regier

  Favors, Welcome, Flattery

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.

  Rodney Atkins

  Football, Fun, Winning

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• Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

  Thomas Paine

  Drinking, Europe, Vanity

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.410

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• Fox News may be demolishing its more liberal cable news rivals in the ratings but to Democrats it's still the bogeyman. That's why President Obama took the opportunity to criticize the network during a speech defending his economic record at Northwestern University today. But in doing so, the president not only demonstrated the weakness of his position but also why he doesn'€t understand Fox'€s appeal.

  Jonathan S. Tobin

  Opportunity, President, Records

  "Faltering WH Still Blaming the Messenger" by Jonathan Tobin, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 6, 2014.

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• High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low prices over time aren't caused by speculation. That's oversupply, mainly by Saudi Arabia flooding the market with low-priced oil to discourage rival oil producers, whether it's Russian oil or American fracking.

  Michael Hudson

  Oil, Arabia, Fracking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The United States is pushing as policy division of the world into rival currency camps - the dollar area on the one hand, and the Russia-Chinese-Shanghai Cooperation Organization group on the other, especially now that the IMF has changed its rules. People think that if there are rival currency groupings and national currencies are going bust, we might as well use gold as a safe haven.

  Michael Hudson

  Safe Haven, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• That's a funny thing, because it's 3 rivals who get a long great on the club that are friends [Neimar, Lionel Messi and Louise Alberto Suarez]. And it's something kinda impossible to imagine that it would happen. But it did and things have been working for us. Of course we mess with each other when someone goes to the national team, but we get a long great.

  Neymar

  Team, Funny Things, Long

  Source: neymarwithlove.tumblr.com

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• I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, Promise, Intuition

  "Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Olivier Sibony and Dan Lovallo, www.mckinsey.com. March 2010.

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• Unfortunately, my rivals are spreading all kinds of suspicions for political reasons that are absolutely not true. They've tried accusing me of agreeing to dismantle the army, of jeopardizing private property, of giving the pensions of policemen to the guerillas - all kinds of lies. What they want is for people to be afraid of peace.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Lying, Army, Accusing Me

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Honor

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.190, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

  Wilkie Collins

  Country, Depressing, Eye

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections”, p.432, 谷月社

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• For me, I'm in the driver's seat; I'm No. 1 in the world. I've won the last couple of meetings, and I've won the big tournaments lately. Whoever comes, I'll try to beat him. But it's almost up to me to decide who's my rival, isn't it?

  Roger Federer

  Couple, Trying, World

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