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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#cliche #forever #indiscretion #poised

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#comfort #conflicting #fact #find #great

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#falter #flap #government #her #majesty

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#geriatric #memorial #parties #services #set

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#ever #lose #man #over #public

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#approach #certain #diplomacy #good #good manners

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#could #i #keep #like #myself

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#britain #canada #canadians #fervently #generation

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#brothers #go #homes #istanbul #japan