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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.