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Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Exceptions A permanent source of disappointment -- Ahsan Zahid
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But military and civilian pay and retirement benefits are not state secrets. This has already been done in many state governments. -- Grover Norquist
Nature provides exceptions to every rule. -- Margaret Fuller
Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions. -- Kiana Tom
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. -- Martin H. Fischer
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower. -- Johnny Weissmuller
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. -- Christopher Hitchens
With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. -- Kavita Ramdas
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. -- Felix Klein
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it. -- Chris Christie
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 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. -- Edward R. Murrow
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions. -- Eli Broad
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. -- William E. Gladstone
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. -- Charles Morgan
Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. -- Colin Firth
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth. -- Gary Zukav
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions. -- Glenn Greenwald
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. -- Al Gore
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work. -- Thomas Kean, Jr.
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
Treasure your exceptions. -- William Bateson
Science does not permit exceptions. -- Claude Bernard
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists of nothing but exceptions. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Blanket statements are always stupid. NO EXCEPTIONS! -- Craig Benzine
Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions. -- C. S. Lewis
The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions. -- Mason Cooley
people always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions ... -- Geraldine Jewsbury
With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do. -- Park Dietz
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions. -- William James
Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody. -- David Lubar
The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with. -- Bette Davis
Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions. -- Reuben Fine
we live; we feel; we hurt. the world makes no exceptions. -- Balthazar Getty
There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule. -- Elizabeth Goudge
Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands. -- Mason Cooley
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death. -- John Ralston Saul
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of. -- Viggo Mortensen
Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared. -- Joseph Kosinski
There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy. -- Herbert Adams Gibbons
I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. -- Oscar Wilde
In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. -- Amy Irving
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. -- Magic Johnson
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. -- James F. Cooper
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist. -- Fernando Pessoa
I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule. -- Gish Jen
An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands. -- John Wooden
As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions. -- Harry Stack Sullivan
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. -- George Stigler
Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions! -- Leonard Jacobson
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions. -- Dolores Hitchens
There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career. -- Stephen Collins
They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions. -- Peter Drucker
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. -- Paul Eldridge
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. -- Lytton Strachey
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions. -- Salman Rushdie
...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions. -- Joseph M. Juran
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. -- David Shields
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions. -- William James
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many. -- A. J. Muste
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There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. -- Charles Osgood
There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions. -- M. Scott Peck
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. -- Jeremy Grantham
If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system. -- Anders Hejlsberg
Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. -- Murray N. Rothbard
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. -- Sinclair Lewis
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. -- Theodore Levitt
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment. -- J. K. Rowling
I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law. -- Vladimir Putin
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science. -- Claude Bernard
In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. -- Daniel Ek
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes. -- Henry Fielding
With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration. -- John Steinbeck
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. -- Jack Prelutsky
There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment -- Carl von Clausewitz
If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS -- Kanye West
Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions. -- Esther Hicks
I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint. -- Dan Wells
If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS" -- Kanye West
Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. -- Milton Friedman
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law. -- John Galt
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker. -- Georg Baselitz
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. -- Stephen King
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. -- Sigmund Freud
I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered. -- Iain Banks
...I can't make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don't have to feel good to do it. -- Patricia Hamill
True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived. -- J. C. Ryle
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. -- Mark Crispin Miller
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long. -- Stephen King
People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too. -- Ben Stein
With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better. -- Carl Icahn
There's this false notion that this is a regional phenomenon, when in fact every state in the union has hardcore rednecks. No exceptions. -- Carl Hiaasen
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership. -- Paul Farmer
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. -- Gunnar Myrdal
A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution. -- Alexander Hamilton
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. -- Leo Tolstoy
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions. -- Clarence Darrow
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern. -- Ann Macbeth
While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement." -- Noam Chomsky
I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart. -- Barack Obama
Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare. -- Henry James
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS. -- Barton Gellman
Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters. -- Richard Brookhiser

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