“ Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. - Marge Piercy. ”
- Marge Piercy- Copy
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“ When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ I'm usually balanced, but I've been out of balance when I've had to focus on a few things to the exclusion of more creative aspects. ”
- Michael Kennedy- Copy
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“ A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. ”
- Margaret Atwood- Copy
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“ How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. ”
- Alfred de Musset- Copy
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“ I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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“ The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ”
- John Andrew Holmes- Copy
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“ I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. ”
- Derek Jarman- Copy
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“ My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. ”
- Joyce Carey- Copy
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“ You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. ”
- Victor Cousin- Copy
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“ Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one… ”
- Rod McKeun- Copy
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“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. - William James. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery. ”
- Robert Montgomery- Copy
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“ Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. ”
- James Burke- Copy
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“ Eating the bitter bread of banishment. - King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ”
- Paul Eldridge- Copy
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“ Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ”
- Robert Jackson- Copy
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“ We expect them (Salvadoran officials) to work toward the elimination of human rights. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water. ”
- Neil Young- Copy
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“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”
- Thorstein Veblen- Copy
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“ My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule. ”
- Graham Norton- Copy
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“ Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! ”
- W.J. Reichmann- Copy
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“ Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
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