Ben Elton Quotes

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

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In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

AmericaMagicWriteSlavesWho

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

John C. Calhoun

LifeDownSurrenderNothingSinking

Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.

John Mott

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Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

John Sexton

SuccessBelieveDoingPlaceNew

All we know how to do is write music and love God.

Sonny Sandoval

LoveMusicGodKnowWriteHow

Before the surge started, frankly, after I left Iraq towards the end of 2006, I was worried that we were losing the war. But after the surge, I felt that we succeeded.

Tom Cotton

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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Robert A. Heinlein

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I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

Rory McIlroy

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Like having your own licence to print money.

Roy Thomson

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Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.

Ron DeSantis

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We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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