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It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
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It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge,
that has ever been gathered at the White House -
with the possible exception of
when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F. Kennedy
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If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
You have not been abandoned.
You are never alone, except by your own choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe in equality for everyone,
except reporters and photographers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
I have no dress except the one I wear every day.
If you are going to be kind enough to give me one,
please let it be practical and dark
so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
- Marie Curie
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
Most of us seldom let the outrageous
part of ourselves out to play.
Notice that I didn't say "never," I said "seldom."
Halloween is one of those exceptions.
While there are certainly many "bah humbug" houses on our street,
more than half the houses wear an acknowledgement of Halloween -
and nothing about Halloween is NOT outrageous.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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