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I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed… — Carl Hiaasen
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. — Cullen Hightower
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. — Napoleon Hill
A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend. — Paris Hilton
Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. — Christopher Hitchens
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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed… — Herbert Hoover
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich. — Michel Houellebecq
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. — E. W. Howe
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can… — Julia Ward Howe
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. — Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness… — Kin Hubbard
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. — William Ralph Inge
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. — David Hume
'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and… — Stephen Hunter
Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man. — Ellsworth Huntington
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. — Zora Neale Hurston
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some… — Steve Irwin

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