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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for… — Anatole France
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy,… — Simon Schama
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde
If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in… — Stephen Covey
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am — Rene Descartes
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and… — George Cheyne
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years. — Seneca the Younger
Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We possess nothing certainly except the past — Evelyn Waugh
A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite… — Douglas Adams
It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always… — Adolf Hitler
There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage. — Mark Cane
I am willing to spend whatever it takes â€¦ My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest… — Sheldon Adelson
In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they wantâ€”not only… — Ai Weiwei
In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper. — John Motson
Because when youâ€™re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy. — Robert Schimmel
They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire. — Al Capone
Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had… — Ann Romney
But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited… — Ezra Koenig
The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what… — Peter Bogdanovich

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