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#rival

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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.


Seamus Heaney


#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.


Eva Herzigova


#fresh #i #i can #land #lucky

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.


Alice Hoffman


#deep #emotional #emotional truth #fairy #fairy tales

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.


John Hume


#background #banks #before #borrow #class

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.


Thomas Huxley


#existence #extinction #holds #intellectual #much

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.


William Ralph Inge


#dissolution #every #hated #institution #most

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.


Paul Allen


#apply #arrival #coming #hasten #horizon

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.


Nicole Appleton


#being #between #cause #ever #issue

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.


Djuna Barnes


#best #heart #imperfections #jealous #knows

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.


Christian Nestell Bovee


#ambition #aspired #graceful #indulgent #love






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