The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.
Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
I love Barbados, it's really relaxing.
Welcome your problems with open arms! Like any other game, the game of life is played as per your aptitude; the more expert you are, the more difficult it gets. Embrace the problems and hardships that come your way, for you are the ones chosen to handle them.
For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.