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title: "3 Reality Competitive Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/it-was-simple-reality-most-competitive-tennis-players-in-my-day-were/)

[Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/347/anne-lamott-188_beautiful_it-was-simple-reality-most-competitive-t_639301.png)

> [“The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), in which only the few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-gunder-frank/the-world-system-wide-reality-is-the-competitive-dog-eat-dog-war-of/)

[André Gunder Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-gunder-frank/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12e/andr-gunder-frank-41877_hobbes_the-world-system-wide-reality-is-the-com_1163716.jpg)

> [When we describe human relations, we usually make them better than they are: gentle, peaceful, and so forth, whereas in reality, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/when-we-describe-human-relations-we-usually-make-them-better-than/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/526/rene-girard-8541_better_when-we-describe-human-relations-we-usua_1622439.jpg)

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