#contest

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#breath #charter #conscience #contest #dogma

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#contest #devolved #freeing #guilty #injured

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

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When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

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But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. ↗

— Helen Garner

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The presidency is more than a popularity contest. ↗

— Al Gore

#more #popularity #popularity contest #presidency #than

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #both #claims #contests #each

I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#contest #drum #drummer #drummers #every

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#air #battle #compromise #contestants #determine

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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