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It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves. — Kevin Bales
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're… — Bill McKibben
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. — Winston Churchill
We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language. — George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America. — Oscar Wilde
He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. — Thomas Gore
After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster. — Galen
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine. — A J P Taylor
As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly… — Harper Lee
Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River. — Stephen Colbert
Nothing is terrible except fear itself. — Francis Bacon
He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty. — Sam Houston
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from. — Bertrand Russell
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him. — Nathaniel Branden
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him. — J. B. Priestley
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone,… — Walter Bagehot
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure… — Heraclitus

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