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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the… — Jose Saramago
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real… — Franz Schubert
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere. — Martin Scorsese
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will… — Jerry Seinfeld
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. — George Bernard Shaw
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. — Bill Shankly
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. — 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
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. — George Bernard Shaw
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in,… — George Bernard Shaw
I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each… — Ed Sheeran
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed… — Rob Sheffield
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if… — Nate Silver
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new… — David Simon
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture… — Thomas Sowell
Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather… — Grace Slick
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights,… — Lysander Spooner
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It… — Lysander Spooner
I love art more than anything in the world except for my family. — Sylvester Stallone

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