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• Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

  Richard Rohr

  Order, Perfect, Lines

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.54, John Wiley & Sons

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• The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Thinking, Littles, Ordinary

  "Theological-Political Treatise". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Ch. 1, Of Prophecy, 1670.

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• I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doe, Common

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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• With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Medicine, United States, Patents

  Collier's Weekly 7 October (1905)

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• We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Tuesday

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• There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

  Don Andrews

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

  Warren Buffett

  Sloth, Style, Boards

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• All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Mean, Men

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• God is concerned about everything that concerns us - without exception.

  Billy Graham

  God, Concern, Concerned

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• When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.

  Caroline Knapp

  Crush, Passion, Night

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• Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Doe, Neutrality

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• If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

  Anders Hejlsberg

  Reliability, Computer, Increase

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• Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Mind, Body

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Manifest Your Desires: 365 Ways to Make Your Dreams a Reality”, p.354, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Motivation, Views

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• The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.

  Sterling W Sill

  Success, Running, League

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• Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

  John Galt

  Government, Law, Abuse

  John Galt (1986). “Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics As If Freedom Mattered”

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• Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Nature, Exception To The Rule, Giving

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• Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

  Marvin Minsky

  Simple, Ideas, Common Sense

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

  Ann Macbeth

  Directors, World, Patterns

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• The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.

  Carl Jung

  War, Passion, Artist

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• All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.

  Richard L. Evans

  Caring, Needs, Esp

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

  Frank Sinatra

  Holiday, Years, Musical

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• Every day without exception - is a gift from God, entrusted to us to use for His glory.

  Billy Graham

  Use, Glory, Gift From God

  Billy Graham (2013). “Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well”, p.43, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Fruit, Shows

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.69, Letcetera Publishing

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• Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Signatures, Dresses

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