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  • Ben Shapiro 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carol Shields A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Chuck Noll A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
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  • Ben Gibbard A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • E. B. White A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anatole France A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • André Gide A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Doug Larson A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Paul Valery A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Albert Camus After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Babe Ruth All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All my plays are masterpieces except the last one.
    George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brendan Behan All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver All the gods are dead except the god of war.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Andrew Jackson All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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