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I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel. — Roderick Haig-Brown
When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get obsessed and addicted.… — Rajneesh
I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. — Madeleine L'Engle
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie. — Edith Head
I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a… — Brenda Lee
The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything… — Timothy Radcliffe
Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I… — Jane Fonda
Everything has changed, except our way of thinking. — Albert Einstein
You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything. — Elle Macpherson
Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it. — Rumi
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our… — Ellen G. White
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own… — Anton Chekhov
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world. — John Calvin
Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable… — Faraaz Kazi
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. — Khalil Gibran
The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether… — Swami Vivekananda
The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God… — Ibn Ata Allah
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
What are we out at the park for except to win? — Leo Durocher
and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not… — David Whyte

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