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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.

Ben Elton

People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
BEN ELTON

First Little People
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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Jealous Love Lying Unrequited
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
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’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
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
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
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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
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
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
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
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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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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