#contests

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. ↗

— Lisa See

#behind #call #china #contests #curtains

I have always said that whomever has limited preferences cannot be a critic, for the same reason some guy who only likes blondes cant be a jury in a beauty contest, for his idea of beauty is predefined and not based on dynamic reality. Thus, what people call 'preferences' are in fact exactly what makes them blind. For this reason being a writer also means you essentially cannot have the same markup as ordinary people, because getting rid of the precomposed is a too essential part of the whole dynamics of writing. ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#critics #beauty

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

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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money. ↗

— Bam Margera

#contests #giving #i #me #money

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#contests #day #determine #election #exception

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich. ↗

— Stephen J. Field

#assault #become #beginning #capital #contests

I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#before #contests #day #deadline #each

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#around #basketball #brothers #contests #could

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #beat #between #competing #contests

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