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Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

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

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.

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

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

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

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.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.

These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

Good thing it's a fight and not a modeling contest or you'd be f#cked.

What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.

You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.