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An aphorism commonly attributed to Benjamin Disraeli identifies three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics ... Only a quote generally attributed to Benjamin Disraeli. (Frederick News-Post)
Abortion rate, crime rate - a relationship? Oct 14, 2006
(Attributed to both Mark Twain and Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, English prime minister of The Conservative Party. . (Fayette County Review, TN)
Now, David, if you don’t stop saying soppy things, you’ll turn into a puffball Oct 7, 2006
Queen Elizabeth I knew all about marketing, so did Benjamin Disraeli, so did Winston Churchill and so does Margaret Thatcher. Indeed some of the most successful leaders have understood marketing so instinctively that they may not even have known how they relied upon it. (TimesOnline)
Gerard Kennedy Sep 22, 2006
The germane sentence reads: "A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph." Bonus points if you identified its author, a 27-year-old lawyer who, something of a dark horse himself, would become prime minister of England Benjamin Disraeli. Related to this article. (Globe and Mail)
Being British for 350 years Sep 22, 2006
A good example of this was a retort by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to an anti-Semitic remark aimed at him in the House of Commons: When the right honorable gentlemen s ancestors were savages on an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon, Disraeli responded. For the British, who like to look down their noses at most other peoples and nations in the world, there is one amongst them who constantly remind them of their humble beginnings. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Opportunity knocks, and Wallace answers Sep 17, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006. To be fair to Disraeli, he died 125 years before A.J. Wallace began his campaign to prove the latter of the three false. (Scranton Times, PA)
Family fortunesHow many people have Jewish roots - but don't know it Sep 15, 2006
Sir Moses Montefiore (pictured) Sheriff of London from 1837 to 1838, received a baronetcy for his humanitarian efforts on behalf of the Jews Benjamin Disraeli twice British Prime Minister Sir Basil Henriques philanthropist, founder of youth club for poor children in London's East End Daniel Mendoza boxing champion of England 1792-1795 ... " Conversion and integration This fear of loss of community and identity runs deep among British Jews - and their integration into wider society over the... (BBC News -- UK)
- Marina Hyde Sep 5, 2006
In this context, we are obliged to salute David Cameron, whose incipient self-regard is currently putting clear water between his own personage and that of Benjamin Disraeli, his political forebear often credited with coining the advice "never explain, never apologise". In reality, the adage was probably given its first run-out by Lord Fisher, Admiral of the Fleet between 1905 and 1910, and has since been taken up by luminaries as diverse as PG Wodehouse and John Wayne, so the Tory leader has... (Guardian Unlimited)
Be adaptable and flexible Aug 27, 2006
We often hear: "Change is inevitable. Change is constant" (Benjamin Disraeli). Now we must couple that with: "The only competitive advantage is the ability to learn and change" (Michael Porter). (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
5) The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list Aug 8, 2006
Sybil Benjamin Disraeli Apart from Churchill, no other British political figure shows literary genius. 16. (Guardian Unlimited)
A slow death by progress Aug 6, 2006
Years before he became Queen Victoria's favourite prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: "The mystery of mysteries," he wrote in 1844, "is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation.". The faster the hands began to move on the clock of progress, the more writers and thinkers began to ask themselves Paul Gauguin's question: Where are we going. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
* China echoes UK industrial nightmare Aug 4, 2006
The journalism of Henry Mayhew and WT Stead, alongside the novels of Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli and Elizabeth Gaskell, helped to put pressure on politicians and industrialists to clean up their conurbations. The public voice of civil society produced the great social reforms of the mid-19th century, from sewerage to child labor and trade union rights. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Ian McShane of 'Scoop' Jul 28, 2006
McShane, whose long list of credits include Judas Iscariot, Benjamin Disraeli and Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights," is 63, old enough to know that talent alone doesn't guarantee longevity. "Cream does not rise to the top in our business all the time, it really doesn't," McShane says. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
- Tristram Hunt Jul 12, 2006
Benjamin Disraeli described Britain as the "workshop of the world". Yet it is in danger of becoming the warehouse of the world. (Guardian Unlimited)
Israel and Iran: The bonds that tie Persians and Jews Jul 11, 2006
As Benjamin Disraeli famously observed, "nations have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests." Though hard to imagine today, the permanent interests between Persian Iran and Jewish Israel will, in time, make these enemies friends again. Stanley A. Weiss is founder and chairman of Business Executives for National Security, a nonpartisan organization based in Washington. (International Herald Tribune)
The chronicles of Jonesy - oh, blow the man down Jul 8, 2006
But what was it Benjamin Disraeli said when they scorned his maiden speech in the House of Commons. "The time will come when you will hear me!". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs - scholar Jul 4, 2006
Jacobs won nearly twice as many votes as the runner-up, the l9th-century philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore, and was well ahead of Benjamin Disraeli, who came only sixth. His own immediate reaction was modest and utterly self-depreciatory: I feel embarrassed, he said, and lapsing into his native Mancunian lingo, added forcefully, and daft. (TimesOnline)
Adam Gopnik on Disraeli Jun 26, 2006
LIFE OF THE PARTY Benjamin Disraeli and the politics of performance ... The only Victorian of eminence missing in the ironic gallery is the most ironic of them all, Benjamin Disraeli: man of fashion, satiric novelist, twice Prime Minister, and the dominant figure of the Conservative Party in Britain from 1846 until his death, in 1881 ... 95), joined, in Britain, anyway, by William Kuhn s The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli (Free Press; 20). (New Yorker)
Braves now stuck with Sosa Jun 22, 2006
Mark Twain, who attributed this phrase to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, said it best: There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics. I think Sosa s stats from the first two innings of games in 2006 are exemplified by that quote. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
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So are Henry Kissinger (American secretary of state), Alan Greenspan (fed chairman under Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush), Joseph Lieberman, Madeleine Albright (American secretary of state), Casper Weinberger (American secretary of defence), Maxim Litvinov (USSR foreign Minister), David Marshal (Singapore's first chief minister), Issac Isaacs (governor-general of Australia), Benjamin Disraeli (British statesman and author), Yevgeny Primakov (Russian PM), Barry Goldwater, Jorge Sampaio (president... (Ocnus.net)
Q&A: Jews in Britain Jun 14, 2006
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was born to Jewish parents but converted. RELATED INTERNET LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. (BBC News)
Twain was the guy (or maybe it was Benjamin Disraeli) who said, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics." They - statistics - are endlessly pliable, useful to one interest group and damning to another. You have to wonder if our information-drenched society has any use for them at all. (Times Herald-Record, NY)
You may have heard the old saying that Mark Twain attributed to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics...". (Newsmax)
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845. There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (RisMedia.com)
"In a progressive country," Benjamin Disraeli once said, "change is constant.". And how. (Forbes)
As the great statesman Benjamin Disraeli once said, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics. . (Philadelphia, TheInsiders.com)
Last Updated: Sunday, 19 March 2006, 08:32 GMT. There are many notable features of the budget on 22 March 2006. (BBC News -- UK)
Monday, Jan. 23, 2006 Individuals may form communities, Benjamin Disraeli said, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. Our courts, parliaments and associations set the collective rules of engagement that provide for the smooth and fair functioning of government, commerce and society. (Time.com)
After Matheson bought Lewis in 1844, Benjamin Disraeli described him as: "One MacDrug who has come from Canton with a million of opium in each pocket." But Matheson's wealth allowed him to support the people of Lewis in the Highlands during the great potato famine in the 1840s. Cowan said: "Their actions are difficult to excuse. They knew what they were doing. When they came back to Scotland they had a lot of money. Most Scots did not question whether the pound notes were dirty or not. They just... (Scotsman.com)
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