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"I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
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"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
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"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides."
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"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."
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"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
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"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
Public
"Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do."
Justice
"I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case."
Beginning
"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it."
Question
"Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations."
Competition
"A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either."
Time
"There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed."
Government
"I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US."
Experience
"As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament."
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