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They use everything about the hog except the squeal. — Upton Sinclair
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog — Konrad Lorenz
Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say… — C.S. Lewis
But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leavÂing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to… — Robin McKinley
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. — Evelyn Waugh
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses. — Alexandre Dumas
you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into… — E E Cummings
You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody… — Rajneesh
You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to… — Cassandra Clare
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except… — Stephen King
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own. — Leonard Bernstein
My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is… — Gregory Galloway
No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one.… — Jeannette Walls
You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you… — Lois McMaster Bujold
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand. — Oscar Wilde
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem… — Sarah Palin
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,… — Nick Hornby
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I… — Carl Jung
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling â€œtraditionsâ€; litanies to family values are… — Susan Sontag

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