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There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and… — Robertson Davies
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by… — Howard Mumford Jones
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise… — Winston Churchill
It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends. — Carrot Top
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it. — Doris Lessing
Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. — John Steinbeck
With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except… — Paul G. Hoffman
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome.… — Henry Adams
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's… — Frederick Buechner
Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations… — Emmet Fox
You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position. — Grigory Sanakoev
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is… — George Bernard Shaw
Never tell a lie-except for practice. — Mark Twain
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. — Benjamin Franklin
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. — Carl Sagan
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws… — Mahatma Gandhi

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