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None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it. — Doris Lessing
Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. — John Steinbeck
With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except… — Paul G. Hoffman
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome.… — Henry Adams
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's… — Frederick Buechner
Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations… — Emmet Fox
You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position. — Grigory Sanakoev
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is… — George Bernard Shaw
Never tell a lie-except for practice. — Mark Twain
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. — Benjamin Franklin
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. — Carl Sagan
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws… — Mahatma Gandhi
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves. — Kevin Bales
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're… — Bill McKibben
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. — Winston Churchill
We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language. — George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America. — Oscar Wilde
He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. — Unknown Author
After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster. — Galen
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine. — A J P Taylor
As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly… — Harper Lee
Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River. — Stephen Colbert

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