The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

It is a chaotic house, built without method, and has acquired its present form over many years: many differently-sized rooms, some built up against one another at different times, either because they were needed or because my grandfather found himself with some spare money for which he had no other use.

Synthetic method is that which begins with the parts, and leads onward to the knowledge of the whole : it begins with the most simple principles and general truths, and proceeds by degrees to that which is drawn from them, or compounded of them ; and therefore it is called the method of composition.

... we can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.