Quote by Vince Cable
My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix. – Vince Cable

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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues – Tories – in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. Im not a believer in laissez-faire. – Vince Cable

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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. Were in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and were also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing. – Vince Cable

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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britains scientific competitiveness. – Vince Cable

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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. – Robert M. Pirsig

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. – Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. – Chauncey Wright

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