"Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role,"

-- Neelie Kroes

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“I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.”
“Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.”
“I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel threatened by her success. But the one thing I am jealous of is the number of awesome, interesting, artistic, productive, and cool people she gets to hang out with all day.”

Source : "Interview with a Plus One". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2015.
“I would never advise shooing away a good idea.”
“We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.”

Source : "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.
“Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.”
“Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.”

Source : "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.
“It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.”

Source : Source: www.newsbusters.org

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