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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

Ben Elton

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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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Doe Real World
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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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
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
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
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
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
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
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
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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