“To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.”
Letter (1 April 1935); published in The Letters of T.E. Lawrence (1988), edited by Malcolm Brown.
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Joseph Wu (2018) cited in " Taiwan won't try to form diplomatic ties with new allies: FM http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201805080021.aspx" on Focus Taiwan, 8 May 2018.

2011, Address on the natural and nuclear energy disasters in Japan (March 2011)
As quoted in "Dramatic Comet Outburst Could Last Weeks" (26 October 2007) by Robert Roy Britt at Space.com http://www.space.com/spacewatch/071026-comet-holmes-update.html.

“959. Bees that have Honey in their Mouths, have Stings in their Tails.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Americans First http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americans-first/, The American Conservative, February 13, 2006
“Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.”
Source: My Double Life

"Nature Is My God" - interview with Fred Matser in Resurgence No. 184 (September-October 1997) http://www.resurgence.org/resurgence/184/gorbachev.htm
Context: We have retreated from the perennial values. I don't think that we need any new values. The most important thing is to try to revive the universally known values from which we have retreated.
As a young man, I really took to heart the Communist ideals. A young soul certainly cannot reject things like justice and equality. These were the goals proclaimed by the Communists. But in reality that terrible Communist experiment brought about repression of human dignity. Violence was used in order to impose that model on society. In the name of Communism we abandoned basic human values. So when I came to power in Russia I started to restore those values; values of "openness" and freedom.