#mat

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bred #competition #desire #doubt #foremost

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#cast #designs #light #man #moves

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'. ↗

— Marat Safin

#behind #care #coming #everything #fault

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win. ↗

— Marat Safin

#had #hated #i #losing #matter

I'm not a materialistic person. ↗

— Marat Safin

#materialistic #person

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people. ↗

— Marat Safin

#happens #lot #matches #matter #new

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. ↗

— William Safire

#answer #bandied #brought #call #colleague

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#american #bits #books #broadcast #city

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #being #demean #eyes #him

The one thing that matters is the effort. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#matters #one thing #the one thing #thing