Mathieu Kerekou Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
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I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.
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Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.
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The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
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Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.
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I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
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Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
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In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
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As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.
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Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.
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I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.
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Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.
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Defeat would not be a shame, ... This is a competition.
