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There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets. — Joseph Brodsky
The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me — Thom Yorke
The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except its… — Leopold II of Belgium
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort. — Wesley Clark
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. — Warren Christopher
Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past,… — Clifford D. Simak
I fix what's broken - except in the heart. — Bernard Malamud
Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so. — Siegbert Tarrasch
Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is… — Mikhail Tal
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry. — Giacomo Leopardi
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of… — Theodore Dreiser
Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. — Napoleon Hill
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating… — Ezra Jack Keats
Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence… — Samuel Rutherford
A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything… — Elizabeth Jane Howard
Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen. — Kirk Gibson

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