Quotes 41 till 60 of 461.
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All my plays are masterpieces except the last one.
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays -
All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
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Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
Source: "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html -
Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.
Source: Toward the Therapeutic State -
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma -
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
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