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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

Oscar Wilde

Passion, Men, White

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

Franz Stampfl

Athlete, Achievement, Defeat

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Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

Frederick Douglass

Practice, America, Hypocrisy

What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for their complete destruction. Trevin Wax provides medicine for the heart in this short, powerful study. Read it and be blessed.

Daniel L. Akin

Powerful, Blessed, Heart

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As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

Betty Grable

Girl, Dancer, Singers

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Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.

Vitali Klitschko

Motivation, Fighting, Fighter

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Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

Susanna Clarke

Two, Yorkshire, Dutch

Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.698, Bloomsbury Publishing

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In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched, expansive section of architecturally uniform structures, unmarred by clashing modern structures, I see in my mind the possibility for a revived district that literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas.

Arthur Frommer

America, Mind, Looks

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Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

Anne Robinson

Teacher, Kicking, Shameless

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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

William Wordsworth

Light, Imagination, Creation

William Wordsworth (1828). “The Poetical Works”, p.137

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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

Garry Kasparov

Stay Strong, Thinking, Years

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The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

Joshua Waitzkin

Art, Careers, Challenges

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There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

Bernard Hinault

Delight, Terrible, Without A Trace

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How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

W. H. Auden

Happiness, Math, Science

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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

Imre Lakatos

Would Be, Heuristics, Research

Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.

Lech Walesa

Victory, Succeed, Borders

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When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

L. Ron Hubbard

Moving, Empowering, Police

"The Church of Scientology Wanted a Balkan Holy Land" by Lily Lynch, balkanist.net. August 27, 2013.

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I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

Dawn Fraser

Upset, Used, Terrible

"The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. January 11, 2002.

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I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create children of a beauty, perhaps of a harmony, previously unknown. Or long forgotten.

Richard Rodriguez

Children, Spring, Thinking

Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.9, Penguin

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And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals.

Hugh Nibley

Jealous, Light, Issues

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A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.

Hugh Nibley

Challenges, Safe, Able

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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

Miguel de Cervantes

Business, Learning, Ambition

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions

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No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

Mas Oyama

Strong, Winning, Matter

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Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

Muriel Lester

Friday, Sight, Evil

Muriel Lester (1947). “It So Happened”

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Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

William Bernhardt

Earthquakes, San Francisco, Personality

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