"The earth only has so much bounty to……" — Ben Elton
"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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37 Quotes by Ben Elton
Ben Elton has 37 quotes on this site.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word…
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I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get…
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You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even…
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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little…
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth…
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We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can…
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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they…
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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More Bounty Quotes
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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common…
— Jimmy Carter
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light…
— Wendell Berry
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Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.
— Sergio Leone
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without…
— Samuel Johnson
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The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man,…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete…
— John Hoeven
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God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has…
— Calvin Coolidge
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A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that…
— Dante Alighieri
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