Claud Cockburn
Claud Cockburn
Francis Claud Cockburn of Brook Lodge, Youghal, County Cork, Munster, Irelandwas an Anglo-Scots journalist. His saying "believe nothing until it has been officially denied" is widely quoted in journalistic studies, although he doesn't claim credit for originating it. He was the second cousin, once removed, of novelists Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 April 1904
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effectiveness cash underestimate
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
philosophical speaks-out wind
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.
success dog fall
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.
duplicity hair wigs
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.