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• The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress each other. I do not wish to call the place in which I live a medium, I prefer to say that things mingle with each other and that I am no exception to that. I mix with the world which mixes with me. Skin intervenes between several things in the world and makes them mingle.

  Michel Serres

  Mean, Feelings, Wish

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• In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Philosophy, Passion, Play

  Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons

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• But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Fall, Sacrifice, Genius

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• I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

  Iain Banks

  Men, Forever, Lasts

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “Use Of Weapons”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a few fatal exceptions, bad food will only make you sick but do no permanent harm. In contrast, a person who feasts upon filthy stories or pornographic or erotic pictures and literature records them in this marvelous retrieval system we call a brain. The brain won't vomit back filth. Once recorded, it will always remain subject to recall, flashing its perverted images across your mind and drawing you away from the wholesome things in life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Things In Life, Drawing, Sick

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• Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Hunters, Gonzo

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Jobs, Best Job

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• People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Winning, People, Political

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• For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.

  Ernest Newman

  Musical, Costumes, Creation

  "Testament of Music: Essays and Papers".

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• Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, Perfect, Joy

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• All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

  Helen Vendler

  Past, Poet, Ifs

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• Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church.

  Tony Andruzzi

  People, Black, Magic

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• For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on the education of the young.

  John Hoyt

  Education, Animal, Building Up

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• The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like, the freer the system, the better off the ordinary poor people have been.

  Milton Friedman

  Voice, People, Ordinary

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• Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

  Nick Rahall

  Believe, Exclusion, Common

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• You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

  Jubal Early

  Girl, Firefly, Doe

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• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  Walter Mosley

  White, Civilization, Males

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.11, Black Classic Press

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• Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

  Walter Mosley

  Girl, Children, Two

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Devil in a Blue Dress: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  War, Air, Spirit

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.107, Pen and Sword

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• The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to undermine America when it mattered, had been sanitized; and the role of Mr. Gorbachev, who had failed spectacularly in his declared objective of saving communism and the Soviet Union, had been absurdly misunderstood.

  Margaret Thatcher

  America, Misunderstood, Unions

  "Rupert Murdoch's inaugural Margaret Thatcher lecture" by Rupert Murdoch, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

  James F. Cooper

  Appreciated, Particular, Effects

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• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Selfish, Gay

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.60, David C Cook

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• Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Music, Sunset, Bullshit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Self, Community, Waste

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 5 (1899)

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• But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

  Earl Long

  Snakes, Favors, Providence

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