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• I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Couple, Team

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• The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Issues, Interesting

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.101, TAN Books

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• Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, War, Sleep

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• The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Beautiful, Summer, Home

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• I have always challenged myself and it's also important to learn from the rivals. Every rider has his own style, and you have to count on some elements that cannot be changed. On the contrary, the bike or the tires can change and it's important to adapt yourself. It's up to the rider to understand what he can change and how much he can adapt.

  Valentino Rossi

  Style, Important, Elements

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

  Randolph Bourne

  Religious, Feelings, Ironic

  Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.136, Univ of California Press

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• In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Growing Up, Sacrifice, Effort

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• I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Stress, Two

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?" "I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant." ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Egypt, Challenges

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• And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

  Scott Westerfeld

  Sight, America

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

  Sylvia Plath

  Jam, Alive, Arms

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.

  C. Terry Warner

  Independent, People, Feelings

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• I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

  Philippa Gregory

  Born, Said, Mines

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

  Alyson Noel

  Incredibles, Creation, All Time

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• Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Love Is, Heaven, Solitude

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophical, Love Is, Losing

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing

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• Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Father, Block, School

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• Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

  Ron Fournier

  Jobs, Negative, Campaigns

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• Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Careers, Wells

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• The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

  James Lovelock

  Oil, Nuclear, Profit

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• I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

  Penn Jillette

  Light, Car, Attractive

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

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• Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jealousy, Bears, Injustice

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1052, Library of America

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• Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

  William Ralph Inge

  Way, Institutions, Hated

  William Ralph Inge (2015). “The Victorian Age”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

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• President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

  Ron Fournier

  Skins, President, Reelection

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