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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. — Henry David Thoreau
In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception. — Edith Widder
In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of… — Mao Zedong
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… — Thorstein Veblen
The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the… — Dave Barry
Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living… — Richard Bach
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You'… — Woody Allen
I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth… — Alice Walker
Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps… — Adrian Lyne
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of… — Herbert Spencer
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. — Emile Coue
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. — Ambrose Bierce
I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms… — Harry Browne
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other… — Isaac Newton
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by… — John Stuart Mill
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. — Charles Osgood
Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would… — Max Born

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