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Thomas Robert "Tommy" Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar was a Scottish whisky distiller who, along with his brother John Dewar, built their family label, Dewar's, into an international success. They blended their whisky to make it more appealing to the international palate and Dewar demonstrated particular skills in marketing, travelling the world to find new markets and promote his product, exploiting romantic images of Scotland and tartan in his advertising. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. January 1864 – 11. April 1930  •  Other names Thomas Robert Dewar, Barone Thomas Robert Dewar
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A Ramble Round the Globe
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A Ramble Round the Globe
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Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Quotes

“When I want to use a quotation, I can very seldom do it properly, as the difficulty arises where to look for it in order to work it up.”

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar book A Ramble Round the Globe

A Ramble Round the Globe, Ch. I, pub. Chatto and Windus, London (1894)

“Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open.”

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Quoted in Giovanni Graziadei, Gestione della produzione industriale, Hoepli, Milano, 2004, p. 65 http://books.google.it/books?id=xomdPzmzKAcC&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false. ISBN 88-203-3395-3. May be a bit questionable http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/minds_are_like_parachutes_they_only_function_when_open/.

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