#competing

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics. ↗

— Carly Patterson

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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing. ↗

— Harold Ramis

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Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#athlete #competing #country #getting #had

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. ↗

— Ron Blomberg

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All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

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I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation. ↗

— Bob Costas

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That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

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