#pet

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#backs #both #competition #entrepreneurs #external

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#compete #healthier #know #perform #physically

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. ↗

— Ice T

#i #last #like #record #would

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#came #captain #doing #eight #everyone

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites. ↗

— George A. Smith

#base #certain #farther #finds #go

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#effort #life #live #middle #middle ages

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. ↗

— Kate Smith

#eat #excessive #food #many #much

Sure, but competition is good for the user. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#good #sure #user

Competing helps me to polish my shape. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#helps #me #polish #shape

Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of individuals sending this love my way. At the time it made me laugh, it made me embarrassed, but as soon as I softened, as soon as I matured back into his son, I came to appreciate what he was saying -- an endearing and magnanimous reminder of how family will always be the sum of its individual members, be they human or animal. ↗

— Nick Trout

#family #pets #family