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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Simone Weil Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Billy Graham Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bill Ayers Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Bill Medley Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Elizabeth Taylor Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • R. Jefferies Except by illustrations drawn from familiair things, there is no way of indicating a new idea.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Horace Benchley Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
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  • Carl Sagan Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is...
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Cyril Connolly Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Carl Sagan Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 51
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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