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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
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The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
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