P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

'Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,' murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words 'Elementary, my dear Watson' has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)

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• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

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• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

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• The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

  

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• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

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• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

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• It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

  

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• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

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• I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

  

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• I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

  

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• If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  

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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  

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• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

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• If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

  

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• You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof...We're talking about any time you start waving a carrot such as American citizenship without securing the borders, that number [of undocumented immigrants] that we have today I believe will double or triple.

  

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• I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.

  

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• In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

  

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• 'Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,' murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words 'Elementary, my dear Watson' has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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