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After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.