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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. -- Antoine Rivarol
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. -- C. S. Lewis
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. -- Groucho Marx
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. -- Isaac Stern
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. -- Colin Powell
Without Exception, Begin Every Day of your Life with Gratitude. -- Wayne Dyer
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. -- Robert Burton
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude -- Colin Powell
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. -- Leonard Susskind
Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception. -- Barry Sanders
I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule. -- Denzel Washington
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. -- Victor Kiam
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. -- Jane Addams
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. -- James Thurber
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -- Oscar Wilde
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. -- Alfred de Musset
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. -- William Henry Hudson
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. -- Charles Osgood
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. -- Tom Peters
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. -- Lawrence Lessig
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. -- Jimmy Carl Black
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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. -- Emile Coue
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me. -- Stephen Sondheim
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. -- Mikhail Bakunin
The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. -- Charles W. Pickering
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. -- Gore Vidal
Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception. -- Miguel Indurain
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception. -- Jimmy Carter
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge. -- Ken Burns
These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception. -- Oscar Pistorius
Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. -- Curt Weldon
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. -- Jean Rostand
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. -- Gunter Grass
Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.' -- Peter Kreeft
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort. -- Mahavira
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. -- Tom Lehrer
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception. -- George Washington
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. -- William S. Burroughs
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
Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh. -- Douglas Rushkoff
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. -- Nikola Tesla
If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.' -- Christine Woods
Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, their kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the "other" people. -- Saul Alinsky
Perserverence w/o exception -- Andy Andrews
Youâ??re my exception, -- Abbi Glines
The exception tests the rule. -- Richard P. Feynman
Without exception, empathy is always appropriate. -- Stephen Covey
The exception does not prove the rule. -- Mark Suster
There is always exception to every rule. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The press is, almost without exception, corrupt. -- Henry David Thoreau
God hates divorce-always, forever, regardless, without exception. -- Michael Pearl
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness. -- Blaise Pascal
Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception. -- John C. Maxwell
With the exception of dessert, food is food. -- Janet Evanovich
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception. -- Carl Schmitt
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. -- Carl Sagan
Dedication to quality, community, and originality without exception. -- Zach Klein
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. -- Bill W.
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception. -- Plautus
Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy. -- William J. Clinton
No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry. -- Samuel Johnson
Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive. -- Calamity Jane
Nothing lasts forever, so what makes love the exception. -- Andre Benjamin
Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception. -- Linda Sue Park
Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception. -- Holland Roden
There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool. -- Connie Francis
India always changes people, and I have been no exception -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception. -- Jeanette Winterson
I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night. -- Alton Brown
The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness. -- Baltasar Gracian
Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception. -- Gautama Buddha
In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception. -- Edith Widder
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
God is concerned about everything that concerns us - without exception. -- Billy Graham
Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well. -- Ben Crenshaw
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule? -- Patricia Clarkson
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception. -- Mason Cooley
It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule -- T.A. Barron
Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution. -- George Bernard Shaw
In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule. -- Arjuna Ardagh
Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception. -- Mithun Chakraborty
The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last. -- Ira Glasser
A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla! -- Heather Thomson
Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception. -- Judy LaMarsh
Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential. -- Ted Sizer
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception. -- Leopoldo Lopez
All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception. -- Austin Scott
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. -- Henry David Thoreau
In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception. -- Nouriel Roubini
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception. -- Robyn Hitchcock
Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional. -- Ron Kaufman
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery. -- Laurie R. King
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit. -- Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. -- Ian Mortimer
We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception. -- Chelsea Handler
Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule. -- Arne Duncan
I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception. -- Amy Carlson
Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan. -- Brian Tracy
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception -- Grantly Dick-Read
You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception. -- Nenia Campbell
Empowering children through the Word of God so excellence is the standard not the exception -- Jacqui Wilson
With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world. -- Ron Paul
The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms. -- Johannes Stark
Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception. -- Mao Zedong
The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. -- Mitch Albom
It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception! -- Kim Lyons
I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. -- G. E. M. Skues
I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception. -- Emily Bronte
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. -- Hermann Hesse

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