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• With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

  David Shields

  Sacrifice, Plot, Too Much

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Careers, Energy

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• Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Father, Democracy, Mob Rule

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.103, Transaction Publishers

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• All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them

  Masami Saionji

  Creating, Energy, Humans

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• Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake. ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception. ... Make a mistake?  Not on my watch!

  Veronique Vienne

  Mistake, Believe, Fate

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• Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.

  Reuben Fine

  Believe, Chess

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• Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Jesus, Teaching, Character

  Arthur Tappan Pierson (1886). “Many Infallible Proofs: A Series of Chapters on the Evidences of Christianity, Or, The Written and Living Word of God”

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• I like me some of Wayne stuff. I think he's the one exception as far as the auto-tune thing goes.

  GZA

  Thinking, Auto Tune, Tunes

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• ...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Successful, Quality, Revolution

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• What I've realized is that all of these people are so successful because they love what they do and they work exceptionally hard. No one gets successful in this business by fluke really. There are probably a couple of exceptions but most people just work so hard. They are working every day and they are doing their prep.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Couple, Successful, People

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.

  David Parnas

  World, May, Bugs

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• We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

  Stewart Udall

  Block, Average, Car

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• All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.

  Kurt Gödel

  Generalization

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• There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

  William James

  Want, Ifs

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• All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Motive, Including

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• [I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.

  Paul Krugman

  War, Two, Office

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• [I]n America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely, the fiscal irresponsibility that prevails when, and only when, hard-line conservatives are in power.

  Paul Krugman

  Fashion, America, Records

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• Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Deities, Wonderful

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• The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Party, Thinking, Government

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• Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Government, Doe

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• The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

  Ross Perot

  People, Goal, World

  Ross Perot (1996). “Ross Perot: My Life & the Principles for Success”, Summit Group

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• I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

  Gish Jen

  Hate, I Hate

  "Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer". Interview With Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. December 1, 2013.

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• It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions.

  Leonard Read

  Morning, Integrity, Phones

  "The Complete Works of Leonard E. Read". 1976.

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• Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Book, Past, Years

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• Save 3-6 months of expenses in a Rainy Day fund. Know why? Cause it is going to rain, and you aren't the exception.

  Dave Ramsey

  Rain, Causes, Months

  Twitter post from Nov 09, 2015

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