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Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States. — Adlai E. Stevenson
If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery. — Sharon Stone
Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items. — Paul Sweeney
I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well. — Omar Sharif
American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so. — Elizabeth A Sherman
I've done drugs, and that's how I know I don't like them. Cocaine is back with a vengeance, everyone in every club is doing drugs.… — Megan Fox
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind — Joseph Conrad
The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism. — David Tracy
We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do… — Alan Watts
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us. — Kin Hubbard
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery — Bertrand Russell
And there was no reason for them to be dancing the Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night. — Mark Helprin
Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures — Sydney Smith
My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business — Margaret Mitchell
The Divine Spirit does not reside in any except the joyful heart — The Talmud
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had — Francis Bacon Sr
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. — Oscar Wilde
Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America… — Oscar Wilde
"I think Ill be a clown when I get grown.. Yes, sir, a clown. There aint one thing in this world I can do about… — Harper Lee
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making. — Charles Dickens
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only… — Albert Einstein
Seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humble ones. (The Cow 2.45) — Quran
Niggas braggin' but everybody stagnant, everybody broke except the nigga on the track. — Unknown Author
It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities.… — Bob Black
The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction, were completely accepted, and indeed, scarcely noted in those… — Isaac Asimov

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