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The word “disinflation” has been coined in order to avoid the unpopular term “deflation”.…I suppose that presently when “disinflation” also wins its bad name, the Chancellor [Sir Stafford Cripps] will call it “non-undisinflation” and will start again.

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Winston S Churchill, 27 October 1949.

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“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

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