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“Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?”

Source: No Contest: The Case Against Competition

“Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.”

Ifs Art Sometimes Past Energy Loses Forget Art Is Claims Museums Circuits Past Present Past Present And Future New Work Working Now

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.”

Matter Happens Energy Ability Atheism Claims Positive Atheism Command Spectacular Boost Matter And Energy

Book:A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

“As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.”

Energy Europe Claims Russia Unjustified

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is simply not substantiated. And moreover, it's not biologically plausible.”

Giving Energy Claims Immune Plausible Immune System Raw Food

Author:Dennis Miller

“We need to consider ancestral cleansing. If we're willing to clear our energy fields of the ancestral energies we don't want, then we are ready to do something really interesting and beautiful which is to claim a connection with the wisdom of the kinds of ancestors we do want to be in contact with. But we can't do this until we've cleaned out the lower stuff that is hindering us.”

Ifs Want Needs Kind Beautiful Energy Stuff Interesting Clear Fields Willing Ready Connections Claims Contact Ancestor Really Interesting Cleansing Energy Fields

Author:Robert Moss

“Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.”

Needs Has Beens Bigs Today Energy Claims Paid Including Oil Biofuels Big Oil Hogwash

Author:Josh Tickell

“The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black and brown young people. That's a sad truth to have to claim, but I believe it's true.”

People Thinking Believe Bigs Young Fighting Energy I Believe Black Saws Claims Aids Brown Infection Sad Truth

Author:Cleve Jones

“People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”

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Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.”

“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark”

Men Needs Doe Matter Energy Numbers Minutes Mines Achievement Claims One Minute Fountainhead Howard Roark

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure-our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.”

“With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero and may even be negative.”

Years May Facts Energy Water Environment Negative Claims Climate Change Passing Passings Observation Zero Feedback Positive Feedback

Author:William Happer

“This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.”

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Book:The Patriot's Monitor: Or, Speeches and Addresses of the Late George Washington

Source: The Patriot's Monitor: Or, Speeches and Addresses of the Late George Washington