Exception Quotes - Page 33

• The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, War, Trying

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns, just to name a few. He is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. I've read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. Black Rednecks & White Liberals is no exception.

  Fred Barnes

  Book, Redneck, Race

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• Blanket statements are always stupid. NO EXCEPTIONS!

  Craig Benzine

  Stupid, Blanket, Statements

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• Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

  Danny Elfman

  Would Be, Firsts, Impossible

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• ...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dark, Age, Genius

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• With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Revolution, Capitalism

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• India always changes people, and I have been no exception

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  People, India, Has Beens

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (2016). “Heat and Dust”, p.7, Counterpoint

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• It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Art, Thinking, Creative

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• As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

  Karren Brady

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• I respect the IBF obligation to fight Povetkin, but I would like the exception to fight David Haye. That is the only title the Klitschkos don't have. We have them all except the WBA, which is why Haye is such an interesting cookie for me to eat.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Interesting, Titles

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• Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Punishment, Mind, Would Be

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• People aren't afraid of failure, they just don't know how to succeed. We are each responsible for our own success (or failure). Winning at what you do is no exception. To ensure a win, you must take a proactive approach. Prevention of failure is an important part of that process.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Winning, People, Important

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• To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Effort, Cost, Able

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• You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heaven, Being Lied, Goodness

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• Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

  H. L. Mencken

  Strong, Fighting, Fate

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.160, Vintage

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• As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Luxury, Doe

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• God hates divorce-always, forever, regardless, without exception.

  Michael Pearl

  Hate, Divorce, Forever

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• I am and will remain the president of all Cameroonians without exception, and the great winner in these elections is democracy

  Paul Biya

  President, Democracy, Election

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• On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Ordinary

  Sinclair Lewis (2014). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.30, Penguin

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• A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Maturity, Thinking, Race

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• In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Revolution, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “On Liberty by John Stuart Mill”, p.27

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• The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Sex, Believe, Men

  Giacomo Leopardi, Ángel Flores (1966). “Poems and prose”

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• In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Judging, Benches

  William Howard Taft, William Taft “Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils”, Transaction Publishers

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• I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

  Frank Zappa

  Honesty, People, Balance

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.

  Martin Amis

  Thinking, Mirrors, Funny Things

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