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The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

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It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

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Serious journalism need not be solemn.

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 14th, 1925

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