Quotes 281 till 300 of 461.
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
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Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
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President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
And the first murderer lay upon the earth.Source: Imperial Adam (l. 42-44) -
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
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Show me where Christ said "Love thy fellow man, except for the gay ones." Gay people, too, are made in my God's image. I would never worship a homophobic God.
Source: Washington Post, 12 March 2010
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