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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

Ben Elton

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
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
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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
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
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
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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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Being Love Lucky Writing
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTON

Difficult Morality Thinking
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
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
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
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
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension

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