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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

Ben Elton

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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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Book Key
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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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks 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
People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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First Little People
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
We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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Believe Groups Looks
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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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Celebration Losing World
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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Love Memorable People
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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Natural People Waiting

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