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Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
Anton Webern
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Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.
George Henry Lewes
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Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.
Vachel Lindsay
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
Jacques Barzun
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
J. C. Ryle
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Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.
Thomas Tusser
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Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Alan Lightman
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Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
Albert Einstein
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Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.
Bernard Goldberg
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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.
Nicholas Sparks
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Based on my experience, I've seen where unity amongst the races has yielded positive results. I don't see any other way for people to gain freedom, justice, and equality here except by being internationalist.
Richard Aoki
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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
Simon Mawer
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Voltaire
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I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.
Victor Gollancz
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I knew [Eva Braun] wrote to [Adolf Hitler], I would see her writing to him and I would see her reading his notes or letters. She kept all that in a safe at the Berghof and nobody got near that safe except Hitler or Eva.
Gretl Braun
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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.
Jane Campion
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
Kanye West
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It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.
Judith Martin
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