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competition

«The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself»
«They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.»
«Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.»
«Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you»
«My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.»
«Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.»
«The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.»
«The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.»
«People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.»
«The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.»

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