Exception Quotes

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Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception. — Mao Zedong
Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception. — Paul Haggis
Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival… — Peter Birks
We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong,… — August Krogh
My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and… — Angelo Pellegrini
I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape whenever you want.… — Gerhard Zeiler
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may… — William Cabell Rives
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be… — Henry De la Beche
With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the sum of which has been… — Niels Henrik Abel
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of… — Don Kates
I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is… — John Chafee
The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or… — Swami Vivekananda
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better. — Carl Icahn
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Philip Khuri Hitti
You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions. — Jane Roberts
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.… — Alberto J. Mora
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but… — Lactantius

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