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'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.
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A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
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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.
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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.
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A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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.
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
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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.
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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.
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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.
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All my plays are masterpieces except the last one.
George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays -
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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.
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