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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except… — C.S. Lewis
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. — Viktor E. Frankl
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in… — Margery Williams
For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize,… — Sophie Kinsella
But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral… — John Steinbeck
In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,… — Cormac McCarthy
I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else. — Mark Twain
You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life. — William Shakespeare
...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt. — Mark Haddon
Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs meâ€”to find out what you're good… — Orson Scott Card
It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and… — Jennifer Weiner
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light... — James Joyce
...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience... — Louise Erdrich
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism â€“ which foretells a coming change. As soon… — Stefan Molyneux
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you… — Betty Friedan
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if… — Mario Puzo
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves. — John Steinbeck

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