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• If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

  Charles Morgan

  School, Years, Law

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• In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

  Amy Irving

  Actresses, Discarded

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• There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

  Richard Perle

  Small Numbers, Iraq, People

  "Turkey at the Crossroads". Luncheon keynote speech at a AEI conference, www.aei.org, September 22, 2003.

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• Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

  Bill Murray

  Inspirational, Blood, Giving

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• 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

  Couple, Life And Death, Musician

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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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

  Home, Successful, Government

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.18

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• Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

  Lena Dunham

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

  William E. Gladstone

  Successful, Mediocrity, Poet

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• The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Country, Men, Order

  Edward R. Murrow's Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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• Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

  Kiana Tom

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Kindness

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• With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Winning, Self Control, Underdog

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• In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

  Sigmund Freud

  Heart, Men, Depth

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.33, The Overlook Press

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• There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

  Anne Frank

  War, People, Murder

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, May, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Law, Organization

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• Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

  Theodore Levitt

  Science, Ideas, Imagination

  Theodore Levitt (1986). “Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Long, History

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• Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

  Clayton Christensen

  Gratitude, Grateful, Men

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• Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Creating, Political

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• All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

  Barbara Walters

  Believe, Buddhism, Heaven

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• When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

  Ernst Mach

  Memories, Boys, Ties

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• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Special, Fax, Telephones

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• Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn't make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.

  Max Born

  Law, Ideas, Atheism

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• There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

  Lewis Terman

  Psychology, Individuality, Intelligence

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• I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

  Daniel Handler

  Relationship, Movie, I Miss You

  "The Beatrice Letters". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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