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“Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
#Truth Quotes
#Believe Quotes
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“Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Karen Kingston (1997). “Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui”, Broadway
#Effectiveness Quotes
#Cash Quotes
#Underestimate Quotes
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“If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”
#Believe Quotes
#Book Quotes
#People Quotes
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“The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”
#Government Quotes
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#Want Quotes
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“A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
#Hands Quotes
#Weapons Quotes
#Newspapers Quotes
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“There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.”
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Claud Cockburn
#Sheep Quotes
#Mad Quotes
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“Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.”
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Claud Cockburn
#Country Quotes
#Couple Quotes
#Divorce Quotes
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“What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Claud Cockburn (1961). “View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography”
#Men Quotes
#People Quotes
#Facts Quotes
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“Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
#Success Quotes
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#Fall Quotes
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“A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Claud Cockburn (1960). “Crossing the Line: Being the Second Volume of Autobiography”, Macgibbon & Kee
#Hair Quotes
#Duplicity Quotes
#Wigs Quotes
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“An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Claud Cockburn (1960). “Crossing the Line: Being the Second Volume of Autobiography”, Macgibbon & Kee
#Book Quotes
#Opportunity Quotes
#Giving Quotes
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“One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.”
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Claud Cockburn
Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
#Philosophical Quotes
#Wind Quotes
#Essence Quotes
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