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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

Ben Elton

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
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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 think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Night Past
There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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Done Made Want
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
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
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
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

You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

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