#contest

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#claim #contested #creature #fact #inferred

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#being #conquerors #contests #english-speaking #field

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#best #contest #fools #forms #government

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#baseball #become #blacks #chicago #chicago cubs

She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#hardboiled #humour #noir #beauty

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#any #best #contestants #given #jeopardy

The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#grabs #now #party #republican #republican party

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#attribute #contest #difficult #discover #enough

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#bulldog #contest #me #say #would

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory. ↗

— John Strachan

#contests #expense #foundation #frequently #glory