Exception Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Media, Differences

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• society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Sex, Athlete, Qualms About

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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• ... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.

  Mary Church Terrell

  People, Doubt, Matter

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Mistake, People, Fancy

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.161, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

  Dore Ashton

  Art, May, Scientist

  Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

  Edward Jenks

  Law, Source, Process

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.

  Oswald Pohl

  Men, Ruffian, He Man

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Divorce, Feels, Ifs

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• Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.

  Barack Obama

  Fashion, Thoughtful, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

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• There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Law, Phrases

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Lying, World, Enough

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• With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Uplifting, Running, Essence

  The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.

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• 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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