Exception Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Exception To The Rule

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• There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

  Charles Osgood

  Reality, Exception To The Rule, Likes

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• You can only govern men by serving them.

  Victor Cousin

  Leadership, Men, Serving

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• 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

  Equality, Men, Views

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• Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

  Amos Oz

  Reading, Imagine, Pleasure

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• Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

  Adrian Lyne

  Iron, Interesting, Intuition

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• I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

  Eddie Murphy

  Successful, Made

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• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  Richard Miller

  Wrestling, Writing, Way

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• I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

  Gloria Swanson

  Song, World, Mary

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• The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

  Boris Spassky

  Player, Unions, Chess

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• 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

  Thinking, Church, Battle

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• The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Atoms, Compounds, Series

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• 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

  Daughter, Children, Brooklyn Bridge

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• With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

  Anthony Storr

  Humanity, Rodents, Members

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• Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Monopoly, Has Beens, Free Society

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

  Colin Powell

  Attitude, Perfection, Excellence

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• 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

  Teacher, Hard Work, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Humanity, Oblivion, Fame

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• 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

  New York, Media, Cnn

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• The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Common

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Children, Food

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spring, Thinking

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• I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

  Neil Young

  Water, Gold, Records

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• As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

  Paul Haggis

  Travel, May, Oscars

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