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Except Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled…
- This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to…
- Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good…
- I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
- In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself.…
- We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar,…
- He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him…
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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