Quotes 281 till 300 of 339.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
Source: The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive -
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000) -
Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest
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Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
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Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
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Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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