P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.
Colson Whitehead -
The most terrible things end, at last.
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Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.
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Old houses mended,Cost little less than new before they're ended.
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I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.
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Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
