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«The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.»
«Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.»
«The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin (Educator) | Keywords: compete| Occasions: Olympic
«People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.»
«States are now being forced to join an international beauty contest to compete for foreign investment.»
«The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.»
«The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.»
«The Way of Heaven does not compete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory.»
«Nanak seeks the company of the lowest of the low class, the very lowest of the low. Why should he try to compete with the great? In that place where the lowly are cared for - there, the Blessings of Your Glance of Grace rain down.»
«The gifts belong to our Lord and Master; how can we compete with Him? Some remain awake and aware, and do not receive these gifts, while others are awakened from their sleep to be blessed.»

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