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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with… — Fran Lebowitz
I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from… — Charles R. Drew
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are… — Lucy Parsons
Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser. — Irwin Corey
According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that… — Herbert Wind
I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course. — Billy Graham
In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable. — Cyril Connolly
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be… — John Donne
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of… — Jacques Barzun
I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for… — Julian of Norwich
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. — Nadine Gordimer
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. — Javier Bardem
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. — Robert Quillen
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute… — Thomas Huxley
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes. — James Russell Lowell
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. — Charles Baudelaire

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