John Reith, 1st Baron Reith quotes
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“He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.”
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“I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.”
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“By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.”
-- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
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“Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.”
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