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Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami. -- Evan Sayet
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. -- John Adams
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. -- Charles Trevelyan
Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking! -- Patricia Sun
The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead. -- Fred Armisen
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition. -- Robert Kagan
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries. -- Pankaj Mishra
Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew. -- Ron Moody
I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments. -- Rory McIlroy
People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other. -- Richelle Mead
I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop. -- John Starks
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art. -- Robert Delaunay
Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds. -- Michael Johnson
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together. -- Harlan Coben
When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention. -- Ronda Rousey
I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses. -- Jimmy Connors
Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence. -- Mike Krzyzewski
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. -- Woodrow Wilson
Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies. -- Andrea Mitchell
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws. -- Rose Macaulay
It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters. -- Charles Emmerson

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