"I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't."

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"I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't."

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

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"The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market."

Vision

"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales."

Life

"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."

Communication

"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."

Media

"I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two."

Loss

"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."

Communication

"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."

News

"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."

Knowledge

"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."

Tax

"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."

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