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He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for lower standards which he will then satisfy.
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By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to a principle, there may be little of the principle left.
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You can't think rationally on an empty stomach, and a whole lot of people can't do it on a full stomach either.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
July 20, 1889
Died:
June 16, 1971
(aged 81)
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John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith was a British broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
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