Exception Quotes - Page 36

• If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Women, Finding Yourself, Ifs

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• Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

  Calamity Jane

  Failing

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• If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Men, Too Much

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

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• Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Exception To The Rule, Way

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• Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.

  Hugh Prather

  Strong, Book, Communication

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• I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Zero, Years, Tasks

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• We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

  Tony Kushner

  Grieving, Forever, Might

  Tony Kushner (2005). “Homebody/Kabul: Final Revised Version”, p.39, Theatre Communications Group

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• Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

  Linda Sue Park

  Editors, Adore

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• After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

  Tony Judt

  Opposites, People, Boundaries

  Tony Judt (2006). “Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945”, p.44, Penguin

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• On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.

  John Calvin

  Men, Giving, Understanding

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.231, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

  Marian Seldes

  Careers, Single Person, Persons

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• My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Fun, Two

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• While it does, and should, feel good to be appreciated by another person, if you are dependent upon their appreciation to feel good, you will not be able to consistently feel good, because no other person has the ability, or a responsibility, to hold you as their singular, positive object of attention. Your Inner Being, however, the Source within you, always holds you, with no exceptions, as a constant object of appreciation. So if you will tune your thoughts and actions to that consistent Vibration of Well-Being flowing forth from your Inner Being-you will thrive under any and all conditions.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Responsibility, Feel Good

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

  Maria Rodale

  Choices, Rich, Clean Air

  Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.192, Rodale

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• Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

  Alfred Marshall

  Education, Economics, Statements

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• Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Law, May, Rooms

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• Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

  Elmore Leonard

  Book, Ice And Snow, Weather

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• Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

  Leonard Susskind

  Stuff Happens, Remember, Surprise

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• I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

  Mark Boal

  War, Thinking, Way

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• All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

  Wen Jiabao

  Party, Law, Organization

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• Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

  Laurie R. King

  Aversion, Machinery, Complexes

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• While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts, they have done so more in the last ten or so years than they had before. I have, therefore, often wondered why there has been so little discussion of goodness. In Search of Goodness is not only an exception: it is an admirable one. It is original and provocative, impressive both in its breadth and depth.

  Raimond Gaita

  Years, Evil, Depth

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• There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Pregnancy, Genocide, Ill

  Herbert Adams Gibbons (1916). “The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 : The Facts and the Responsibilities”

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• Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable
  advantage in all instances.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Giving, Mind, Special

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.67, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Self Esteem, Believe, Angel

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