Quotes with inevitable-except

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Mark Caine There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Toni Morrison There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Aaron C. Brown There's no way to know how good a player you are except by measuring against others.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Bria Skonberg There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Bill McKibben These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
    Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Hardy Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton 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.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • C. L. R. James 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.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Lee 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.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Sir Thomas Beecham Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • Bum Phillips 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.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Walter Bagehot 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.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Alice Walker 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?
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bernard Meltzer 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.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Henry van Dyke Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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