Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2785 authors
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing…
— Alain de Botton
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Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as…
— Tom Wicker
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Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate…
— Derek Bok
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If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch…
— Kevin Spacey
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When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for…
— Bobby McFerrin
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I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I…
— Lou Gerstner
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Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy,…
— Dave Barry
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There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except…
— David Jeremiah
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No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and…
— Parker J. Palmer
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So, how to become friends with money? First, you have to forget everything you've ever been told about it. And then you have to put…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.
— Dave Barry
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West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing is…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night.…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if…
— Francis Bacon
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All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
— Thomas Sowell
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Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not…
— Martin Luther
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