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Ben Elton has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 for my…
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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 over it.
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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 if the…
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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 possessions count.
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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…
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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 running.
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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 act responsibly…
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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 must throw…
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,…
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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an…
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Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving…
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The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It…
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Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness.…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but…
— Washington Irving
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Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and…
— Cassandra Clare
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,…
— Ben Elton
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An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.
— Wayne Dyer
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