Quotes 101 till 120 of 461.
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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
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Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
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Except by illustrations drawn from familiair things, there is no way of indicating a new idea.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is...
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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 51 -
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
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Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Source: Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum
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