“Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On preparation for the Paris Peace Conference (November 1918)
Prime Minister
“Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.”
R.U.R. (1920)
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