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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are… — George Bernard Shaw
Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are. — B.F. Skinner
It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a gameâ€”except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important. — Andy Rooney
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile — Robert Kennedy
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the… — Mark Twain
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those… — Samuel Johnson
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed. — Saint Francis de Sales
Shoot up everything except a school or a playground — Birdman
Everything in the world starts small and then becomes biggerâ€”except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller. — Warren St. John
In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives. But if we… — William Lane Craig
I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as a sundowner. Except,… — Desmond Tutu
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man. — Michel de Montaigne
You use sex to express every emotion except love. — Woody Allen
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. — Mark Twain
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. — William Hazlitt
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. — Unknown Author
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not… — Gilbert Adair
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. — Thomas Carlyle

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