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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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Blast from the Past

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Popcorn

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

Meltdown

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer ...

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Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

Blind Faith

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

Blast from the Past

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in th...

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Blast from the Past

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...

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They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which no...

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With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example a...

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Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her ...

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Blind Faith

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Ben Elton

Stand-up comedian

Born: 1959-05-03

Died: N/A

Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. Born in Catford, London, he is the son of the physicist and educational researcher Lewis Elton and a nephew of the historian Sir G R Elton.More