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The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi. -- Martin Van Buren
I honestly don't think Peter is that interesting without Harriet - the only exception being 'The Nine Tailors', which is such a good book it doesn't really matter whether he's got a consort or not. -- Jill Paton Walsh
Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair. -- Alice Dreger
In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts. -- Maud Adams
That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception -- Hayley Williams
It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality. -- Victor Hugo
It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced. -- Noam Chomsky
You want to live, right? (Syn) Absolutely. (Kiara) Then we're where you are, bathroom breaks being the only exception "? unless you're in public, and then we get to risk additional arrest records. (Syn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological. -- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. -- Victor Kiam
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. -- Boris Spassky
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. -- Jack Prelutsky
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. -- Franz Grillparzer
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 am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. -- John Harvey Kellogg
To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.' -- Rebecca Solnit
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
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me. -- David Bowie
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career. -- Siri Hustvedt
You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part. -- Chiang Kai-shek
New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke. -- Rachel Sklar
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. -- George Saintsbury
Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture. -- Joshua Foer
I respect the IBF obligation to fight Povetkin, but I would like the exception to fight David Haye. That is the only title the Klitschkos don't have. We have them all except the WBA, which is why Haye is such an interesting cookie for me to eat. -- Wladimir Klitschko
What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network. -- Vint Cerf
Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy. -- William J. Clinton
Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan. -- Brian Tracy
We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated. -- Maria Rodale
This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive. -- Alberto Moravia
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception. -- Leo Tolstoy
One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them. -- Dion Fortune

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