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• With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Children, Book, Soul

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• The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journalism, Presses

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

  Ben Stein

  People, Rich, Free Society

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• A lot of heavyweights, with the exception of a few Eastern Europe fighters, they really look like being a heavyweight is just like, who can eat the most Pizza Hut and McDonalds.

  Randy Johnson

  Mcdonalds, Europe, Heavyweights

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• Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Want, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Successful, Age, Groups

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Moving, Mountain

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.76, Routledge

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• The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Opposites, Balance

  "George Carlin: The Lost Interview". Interview with Rick Cusick, standard-progress.com. June 27, 2018.

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• Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally you may make an exception. But, you do so knowing you're attempting to do it for a certain reason and you have to be very careful not to try to make too many exceptions, because then you wind up as a franchise with a team full of exceptions, which is not what you want.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Philosophy, Knowing

  Source: sports.yahoo.com

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• I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Stars, Simple, Thinking

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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• If you're wearing a jacket, as I always am, the sweater vest always needs to be buttoned, with the exception of the bottom button. But if you're going sans jacket, you can leave it open.

  Tim Gunn

  Sweaters, Vests, Buttons

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.

  George Carlin

  Play, Mind, Television

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, Company, Great Idea

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• I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Rocks, Crafts

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.

  Mario Bunge

  Political, Important, Enlightenment

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices.

  Tito Colliander

  Community, Battle, Vices

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.26, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• But one of the rules I don't like to break is we still do - 95% of our movies are low budget. We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions, there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

  Jason Blum

  Thinking, Trying, Quality

  Source: collider.com

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• Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ideas, Political, Politics

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance in which an abortion would be needed to save a woman's life. There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing.

  Joe Walsh

  Mother, Technology, Abortion

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• Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Young, Old Man

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• There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Two, Exception To The Rule, Trying

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• A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable.

  John Adams

  Wise, Country, Men

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.199

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• In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

  David Brinkley

  Agency, Government, Female

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• If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.

  John Howard

  Christian, War, Negative

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• The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power. The majority has eternally, and without one exception, usurped over the rights of the minority.

  John Adams

  Kings, Rights, People

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.10

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