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...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But… — Christiaan Huygens
It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except… — F. A. Harper
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space. — Charles Scott Sherrington
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe something based on… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
No battle is worth fighting except the last one. — Enoch Powell
I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives. — Richard Littlejohn
All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or… — Mamie Gummer
Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never… — Niccolo Machiavelli
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false… — Hannah Arendt
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall… — J. Reuben Clark
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity. — Andrew Carnegie
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other… — Michel de Montaigne
There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass. — St. Germain
Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that… — Ram Dass
Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego. — Wayne Dyer
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because… — Cesare Beccaria
And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy Body… — Francis of Assisi
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. — P.G. Wodehouse

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