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  If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Exception To The Rule

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• The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Excellence, Littles

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• You can only govern men by serving them.

  Victor Cousin

  Leadership, Men, Serving

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• If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Dust, Disease

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• It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

  Jean Rostand

  Teacher, Hard Work, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Humanity, Oblivion, Fame

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• With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

  Curt Weldon

  New York, Cnn, Media

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• I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

  Gloria Swanson

  Song, World, Mary

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• The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

  Boris Spassky

  Player, Unions, Chess

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• I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Thinking, Church, Battle

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• The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Atoms, Compounds, Series

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• I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

  Ken Burns

  Daughter, Children, Brooklyn Bridge

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• With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

  Anthony Storr

  Humanity, Rodents, Members

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• Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Monopoly, Has Beens, Free Society

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  Victor Kiam

  Humorous, Funny Thanksgiving, Men

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Children, Food

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

  Isaac Stern

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

  James Thurber

  Yoga, Exception To The Rule

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• When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

  Emile Coue

  Winning, Imagination, Conflict

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• There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Political, Politics, Accomplished

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• The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Common

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• I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Country, Writing, People

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

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• Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Science, Light

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.622, Pan Macmillan

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