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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 should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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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 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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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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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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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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