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• Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

  Giorgio Agamben

  War, Mean, Political

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.

  William James

  Dream, Corny, Formulas

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• I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.

  Andy Andrews

  Dream, Choices, Focus

  Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.275, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

  Bill Gates

  World, Poverty, Chance

  "3 Myths That Block Progress For The Poor". Bill and Melinda Gates' 2014 Annual Letter, www.gatesfoundation.org. January 20, 2014.

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• For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Talking, Sea

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• I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.

  Taylor Swift

  Dream, Believe, Work Out

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• There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

  Gloria Naylor

  Writing, Artist, America

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• It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.

  Assata Shakur

  Mean, Exception To The Rule, Resistance

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• Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

  Leonard Jacobson

  Opportunity, Awakening, Life Is

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• Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don’t hold up well under scrutiny.

  Amanda Marcotte

  Religious, Ideas, Special

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• With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

  Paul Farmer

  Achievement, Important, Working With Others

  Paul Farmer (2013). “To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.

  John Calvin

  Men, Heaven, Grace

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.132, Lulu.com

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• Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Hate, Monopoly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.

  John Calvin

  People, Desire, Groups

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• Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Broken, Remember, Repeats

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• If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.

  Martin Luther

  Preaching The Gospel, Issues, Aspect

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• Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.

  Richard Rohr

  Self, People, Trying

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• Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to say to their cameraman, their cast. It's the sign of real, physical exhaustion.

  Peter Mullan

  Real, Trainspotting, Directors

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.

  Brent Spiner

  Thinking, Unemployment, Actors

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• Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

  Brent Spiner

  Hollywood, Stories, Facts

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• The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort.

  Shinjo Ito

  Teaching, Practice, Effort

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.135

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• With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Law, Physicians, Medical Profession

  The Health Master Ch. 1

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• Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think we are going to be any exception. What made us exempt from history?

  Gwynne Dyer

  Thinking, Years, Politics

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• You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a man who prays and his strength and his power cannot by exaggerated. Just give to a man this power of prayer and you give him almost omnipotence.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Prayer, Motivation, Inspiration

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1922). “The Wisdom and Wit of T. De Witt Talmage”

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• With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

  Donald Davis

  Funny, Writing, Editors

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