Exception Quotes - Page 15

• Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Marijuana, Substance, Caffeine

  Source: sojo.net

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• Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time." Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a really important philosopher for all I know. I've never been able to read him.

  Dale Jamieson

  Philosophy, Important, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.

  Amos Oz

  Israel, Village, Jerusalem

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

  Amos Oz

  Israel, Novel, Wells

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I mean, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, the Black Lives Movement, it's very difficult to, in a sense, especially since the 1980s, to talk about what the social contract is and what it means, and what it means to celebrate public goods, what it means to make, create social investments.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Black, Movement

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a political culture of hyper-punitiveness has become normalized. Revealing itself in a blatant display of unbridled arrogance and power, it is unchecked by any sense of either conscience or morality.

  Henry Giroux

  Political, Arrogance, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think some people at Doubleday worried about that a bit when Knockemstiff came out, but, with the exception of one or two people who complained that I didn't do justice to the many good people who lived in the holler, most of the local objections have been aimed at the violence and foul language.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Children, School

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, People, Personality

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.

  Judy Woodruff

  Essentials, Administration, Economic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Country, Defeated, Crime

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has paid reparations and so on. Japan, in contrast, apologizes for nothing and has paid no reparations, with one exception: It pays reparations to the United States, but not to Asia.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Japan, Asia

  Source: www.madre.org

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• I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.

  Alton Brown

  Night, Election, Spokes

  "Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown". Interview with Joe Dziemianowicz, www.nydailynews.com. November 21, 2016.

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• North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Volcanoes, Korea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I do see is Cuban people that are just - want to see change. They are vibrant. They are trying to fix up old cars, so they can start their tourism businesses. There's hundreds of thousands of small companies that have already started under some exceptions that Raul Castro has put into place.

  Amy Klobuchar

  People, Car, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rocks, Rock Music, Inventor

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My answer is that [Donald] Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he's had every establishment off side; Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence [agencies], arms companies... big foreign money ... are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.

  Julian Assange

  Winning, Agency, Media

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

  Liv Ullmann

  Long

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Giving Up, Party, Years

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Magic, Philip

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

  Neil Young

  Song, Thinking, Play

  "For Neil Young, the Trump Era Feels a Lot Like the ’60s". Interview With Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. December 11, 2016.

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• Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in the case of people who go through hugely traumatic events or suffer from brain injury or disease. Some would argue that religious conversions can have deep personality-altering effects. But these are all exceptions to the rule.

  Neal Stephenson

  Religious, Exception To The Rule, People

  "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

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• The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mistake, Years, Worry

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• I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Boredom, Leaving

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by all; there is typically a fringe of dissidents. With very rare exceptions - in fact, it's hard to think of any - they suffer in one or another way; how depends on the nature of the society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Suffering, Way

  Source: chomsky.info

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