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People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.