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Except Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
- Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
- At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed…
- There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents…
- There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that…
- Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
- It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and…
- There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
- If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount…
- Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery
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- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
- Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. — David Bailey
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker
- It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. — Russell Baker