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  • George Bernard Shaw An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alan Watts And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Henry Miller Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bernard Goldberg As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Henry Brooks Adams As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Robert Benchley As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Barry McGee As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • John Donne At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Edward Gibbon Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Albert Camus But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert C. Gallagher Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Codi: So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives. Loyd: Only if you have an ordinary life. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
    Source: Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [With] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • James Magary Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
    James Magary
     
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  • Thomas Carlyle Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Anton Wilson Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
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