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There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that… — Langston Hughes
I am proactive in every duty, except that which requires action. — Wes Fesler
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. — Leonard Nimoy
But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience? — Muhammad Asad
People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is… — Maya Angelou
She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at the lights and… — Melina Marchetta
Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the… — Roderick Nash
We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to… — Charles Kettering
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there. — F. Murray Abraham
Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or… — Stephen Colbert
Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded) — Albert Einstein
No one can keep you down except yourself. — Andy Gilbert
The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one… — W. Somerset Maugham
You do not have a problem except the one that is in your own mind, and you put it there! — Myrtle Fillmore
The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this… — Winston Churchill
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except… — Winston Churchill
The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend.… — Greg Ginn
Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie. — George Augustus Henry Sala
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for… — John Foster

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