"Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum."

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Source : Valerie Miner (2014). “Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage”, p.36, Open Road Media

Valerie Miner

#Emotional Quotes #Political Quotes #Competition Quotes

“I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.”
“I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.”
“Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser ...”
“I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.”
“In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the midst of beautiful forests under the skies that give their color and their charm to the life of youth gathered here . . . there is music in the air of the place.”
“COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
“If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.”
“When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.”

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