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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.
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Paul Feyerabend
Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
In accordance with our principles of free enterprise and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to fight to the death for it.
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Monty Python
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Results from Poor Man's College:

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
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Robert Collier
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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