Exceptions Quotes

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Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a… — Dallin H. Oaks
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies.… — Donald J. Boudreaux
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions,… — Nick Rahall
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of… — Walter Mosley
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — James F. Cooper
Instead of recognizing the State as â€˜the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,â€™ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it… — Albert J. Nock
So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no… — Bud Selig
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn --… — Odell Shepard
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary… — Eric Chaisson
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is… — Arthur C. Clarke
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so… — I F Stone
With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countriesâ€¦What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners… — Lee Kuan Yew
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. — Paul Eldridge
Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the… — Richard Louv
A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which… — Andrew Klavan
Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would… — Miller Huggins
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had… — Oscar Wilde
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general,… — Donald Knuth
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity,… — Nathaniel Branden
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this… — Henry David Thoreau

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