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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. -- Paul Eldridge
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. -- Charles Osgood
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets. -- Pieter Zeeman
I couldn't date someone who didn't like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn't like animals, I am a little suspicious of them. -- Penn Badgley
An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands. -- John Wooden
It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out... -- Assata Shakur
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. -- James Thurber
I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule. -- Denzel Washington
Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule. -- Arne Duncan
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. -- William Hazlitt
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. -- Cesare Lombroso
Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule. -- Julie Burchill
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
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure. -- Ron Perlman
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
The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule. -- Francis Parkman
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould. -- Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule. -- Minnie Driver
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
The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions. -- Conor Oberst
I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work. -- Robert Powell
America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule. -- Seth Shostak
Nature provides exceptions to every rule. -- Margaret Fuller
There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule. -- Elizabeth Goudge
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
Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. -- Murray N. Rothbard
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. -- Stephen King
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

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