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  • We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
  • Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
  • Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

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  • Les Brown Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Georges Bataille A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Voltaire All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Mark Zuckerberg I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.
    Source: The Telegraph, 7 november 2014
    Mark Zuckerberg
    American internet entrepreneur (1984 - )
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  • George Orwell In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Russell Wayne Baker It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • George Santayana Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Booker T. Washington Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
    Source: Up From Slavery (1901) ch. XII
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • John Ruskin The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this - that we manufacture everything there except men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton ''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ben Shapiro 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carol Shields A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • E. B. White A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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