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• In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

  George Eliot

  Human Nature, Humans, Complexes

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

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• Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

  Plautus

  Unexpected, Results

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• All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ambition, Son, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.155

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• Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Party, Interesting

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.54, Vintage

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• The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Crime, Pardon

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.64

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• My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Book, Names, Records

  Daniel Defoe (1993). “Moll Flanders”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• This a sacred rule we find
  Among the nicest of mankind,
  (Which never might exception brook
  From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)
  To doubt of facts, however true,
  Unless they know the causes too.

  Charles Churchill

  Doubt, Might, Sacred

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.239

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• Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Fall, Pride, Leader

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• If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?

  Celia Thaxter

  Life Changing, Doubt, Would Be

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Women, Eight, Careers

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• All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.

  John Bingham

  Law, Land, Parent

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• I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

  Richard Steele

  Giving, Offensive, Praise

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1710). “The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.302

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• The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.

  Oscar Straus

  Country, Father, Race

  Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”

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• The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in space and I think that's because space is an equaliser. It makes everyone the same really and suits an ensemble cast and actors who are prepared to work with each other.

  Danny Boyle

  Stars, Thinking, Space

  "Sunshine - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, Suffering, Actors

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that.

  Jenny Hoyston

  People, Privilege, Kind

  "The End of the Erase Errata Era". pitchfork.com. October 16, 2015.

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• There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Pain, Culture, Plight

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.16, Penguin

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• America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Hero, America, Leader

  Gunnar Myrdal (1995). “Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy”, p.7, Transaction Publishers

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• Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

  Stephen G. Post

  People, Important, Unselfish Love

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• But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.

  Fred Brooks

  Knowing, Requirements, Arguing

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• When I talk with people, I don't even see what they are wearing . . . No, I recognize it if it's something particularly nice and interesting. I see the exception.

  Miuccia Prada

  Nice, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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• Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

  Guido Westerwelle

  Military, Tools, Normal

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.

  Paul Achleitner

  America, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• State companies winning deals because of government-to- government interaction has become a rule rather than an exception. This will increase competition for multinational companies in acquiring oil and gas assets.

  Arjuna Mahendran

  Winning, Oil, Government

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