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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams

Liberty, Free, Earth

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
Frank Sinatra

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

Politics, Public, Advantage

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder

Good, Passion, Battle

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Work, Politics, Battle

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus

Yourself, May, Issue

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope

Best, Government, Whatever

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke

Legal, Children, Divorce

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

Science, Keep, Conscience

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter

Best, Care, Human

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron

Time, Odd, Spirits

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
Barbara Corcoran

Beauty, Good, Great

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Tired, Mean, Words

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Daniel Webster

Power, Liberty, Executive

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
Chris Rock

Dance, Judging, American

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
William Jennings Bryan

Humanity, Liberty, Between

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
Rowan Atkinson

Useful, Kicking, Arse

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon

Win, Ourselves, Improve

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.
Eric Clapton

Lie, Around, Between

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Wole Soyinka

Power, History, Truth

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
Al Gore

Popularity, Presidency

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

Between, Bulldog

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
Tommy Chong

Teen, Put, Fair

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
Al Gore

Warm, Popularity, Presidency

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
Fred Durst

Fighting, Support, Backyard

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Norman Mailer

May, Hero, Vision

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.
Lucy Powell

Government, Between, Choice

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
Leslie Banks

Time, Money, Home

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.
Sharon Stone

Beauty, Good, Thought

I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.
Jane Seymour

Smile, Long, Win

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