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To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption;… — Jacques Ellul
A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they… — David Berg
One of these days you're going to a mansion that isn't going to cost you anything!-No upkeep, no expense, absolutely nothing except what it's already… — David Berg
We're even going to have sex in Heaven! How about that? Isn't that wonderful? Love all the girls you want to and all the handsome… — David Berg
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. — Woody Allen
Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger. — John Harvey Kellogg
Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now… — Frederick Lenz
By God, we shall not stop, God willing, except at the doorsteps of the White House, and to raise the banner of monotheism on their… — Osama bin Laden
I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put… — Ben Stiller
When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then… — Morgan Freeman
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. — George D. Prentice
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy. — Robert A. Heinlein
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God. — Francois Rabelais
When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which… — Rabindranath Tagore
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that… — Aldous Huxley
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. — Marianne Moore
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose. — Winston Churchill

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