#except

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#except #inside #real #real security #security

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#attacking #cavalry #course #enemy #every

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#except #impact #important #lives #other

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring. ↗

— Sid Vicious

#american audiences #any #audiences #bit #boring

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. ↗

— George Crumb

#determined #english #except #good #i

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#everyone #except #man #politician #sat

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it. ↗

— Patti Davis

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