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'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?''Real isn't how you are… — Margery Williams
And they were not enjoined anything except that they should serve Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, upright, and keep up prayer and pay… — Quran
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the… — John Smith
We never ask God to forgive anybody except where we haven't — Elbert Hubbard
Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home — Joseph Anderson
Then I started thinking to the Destiny makers that continuously create new images y in books, on television or through other media that provide images.… — Sorin Cerin
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There… — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic — Russell Baker
We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Codi: So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives. Loyd: Only if you… — Barbara Kingsolver
I said to the wife, Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road… — Max Kauffmann
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too… — John Barth
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at… — Michael Chabon
I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. — Richie Allen
Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age. — Seneca
The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me. — Charlotte Gainsbourg
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams
We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage. — Christo
What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the… — Vicomte De Valmont
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they… — Gail Sheehy

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