Quotes 261 till 280 of 461.
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Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
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Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
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Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death.
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One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
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Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
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Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Source: Wolkenatlas (2008)
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