Except in very narrow cases where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you you're toast anyway.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window except that the birds might eat them.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion except in rare instances that serves the bench well. It is rather an ability to understand the law and follow it.

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.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion although you will not find me saying so in print.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Power is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.