Quotes with inevitable-except

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  • Joseph De Maistre Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Will Durant Nothing is new except arrangement.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • John Maynard Keynes Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bruce Barton Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • George Orwell Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Ellen Glasgow Nothing would astonish me more, after all these years, except to be understood.
    Letters of Ellen Glasgow
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Avicenna Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Francis Bacon Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Aldous Huxley Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sydney Smith Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Oscar Wilde Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marie Henri Beyle One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
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  • Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buzz Osborne 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.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • William Hazlitt Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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