“Competition reduces people's creativity. And the trend of copying is increasing. Ungratefulness comes from comparison, and comparison comes from competition.”
Speaking to journalist Iftikhar Ahmad (December 2017) as quoted in Media Imperialism in India and Pakistan (2019) by Farooq Sulehria, p. 59
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