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These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.


Norm Dicks


#aircraft #assistance #below #capital #cost

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.


Denis Diderot


#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.


Joan Didion


#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.


Alfred Doblin


#about #after #eyes #feet #go

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.


Edsger Dijkstra


#competitive #concept #days #excellence #explicitly

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.


Jodie Foster


#cruelty #cultural #human #might #very

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.


Jim Dine


#being #funny #i #i do #intensity

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.


Jaron Lanier


#sustainable #thinking #writing

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.


Diogenes


#expression #favorite #man #most #spend

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.


Walt Disney


#cartoon #cartoon characters #characters #exaggeration #fable






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