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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Ben Elton

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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Facts Giving Kind
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
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Hot Police Writing
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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Silly Stupid Wish
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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Nice People Thinking
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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Blood Heart Men
The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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Century Over Worst
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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Mistake Risk Running

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