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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

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.