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Nothing is terrible except fear itself. — Francis Bacon
He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty. — Sam Houston
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from. — Bertrand Russell
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him. — Nathaniel Branden
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him. — J. B. Priestley
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone,… — Walter Bagehot
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure… — Heraclitus
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for… — Anatole France
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy,… — Simon Schama
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde
If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in… — Stephen Covey
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am — Rene Descartes
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and… — Unknown Author
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years. — Seneca the Younger
Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We possess nothing certainly except the past — Evelyn Waugh
A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite… — Douglas Adams
It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always… — Adolf Hitler
There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage. — Mark Cane
I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest… — Sheldon Adelson
In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want—not only… — Ai Weiwei
In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper. — John Motson

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