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This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere. ↗


— Jane Campion


#anywhere #cult #different #down #ethos

I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade so I tried to do everything I could to minimize the need for abortions. ↗


— Jimmy Carter


#approve #believe #case #could #court

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television. ↗


— Jimmy Carter


#again #been #broadcasting #called #deliberate

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it. ↗


— Luc Ferrari


#except #hate #haven #i #i was born

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. ↗


— Arthur Erickson


#architecture #exceptional #radiated #vitality

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them. ↗


— Lakhdar Brahimi


#decide #end #even #except #fight

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. ↗


— Vera Brittain


#ask #beauty #except #may #reward

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off. ↗


— Harold Brodkey


#am #decay #except #feel #first

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. ↗


— James L. Buckley


#campaigns #candidate #candidates #case #contributing

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. ↗


— Gilbert K. Chesterton


#disease #divine #dust #else #entirely






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