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“Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.”

Doe Seems Love Is Cases Assuming Statements Exception Irrational Proven Amazement

Author:Jessica Zafra

“Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.”

Ifs Heart Care Wish All Things Longing Strive Exception Serving Host Serving God Wish You

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.”

People Men Home Hero Mets Meetings Studios Exception My Hero

Author:Siobhan Fahey

“Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.”

Years Made Lasts Painting Dating Exception Diamond Last Year My Boyfriend Exception To The Rule

Author:Minnie Driver

“Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women’s movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.”

Years Stills Hard Done Running Community Lines Feminism Movement Color Hard Work Faults Exception Lgbt Public Life Work To Be Done

Author:Christine Pelosi

“Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.”

Should Wells Able Students Succeed Exception

Author:Ted Sizer

“I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.”

People Ifs World Unity Acknowledge Welfare Exception

Book:I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.”

Has Beens Life Is Order Lines Perfect Exception Disorder Straight Lines

Book:Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.”

Thinking Littles Divine Ordinary Supposed To Be Exception Nevertheless Multitudes Prophecy Strain Rarity

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.”

Used Pay College Used To Be Exception Borrowing

Author:Arne Duncan

“I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.”

Doe Lying Common Oneself Exception Existential

Book:The Vision of Nietzsche

Source: The Vision of Nietzsche

“With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.”

Sometimes States Interest United United States News Presses Medicine Newspapers Agents Exception Honorable Patents Beck And Call

Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams

“We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception.”

Humor Funny Comedy Exception Tuesday Thursday Margarita

Author:Chelsea Handler

“There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.”

Ifs Giving Two Running Sports Mistake Football Cost Basketball Giving Up Baseball Rate Exception Hockey Mainstream Motor Rodeo Fatality

Author:Don Andrews

“Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.”

Wells Style Return Remains Investment Operations Boards Exception Approval Ownership Reserves Banking Sloth Cornerstones Federal Reserve Lethargy Fargo Wells Fargo

Author:Warren Buffett

“All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.”

Men Mean Different Ends Happiness Objects Aim Exception

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows House Healthy Commitment Twenties Scared Exception Disagree Uncertain Avoiding Norm Loving Relationships Uncertain Times

Author:Lena Dunham

“God is concerned about everything that concerns us - without exception.”

God Concern Concerned Exception

Author:Billy Graham

“When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.”

Thinking Want Needs Years Hard Might Night Passion Three Rooms Half Focused Obsessed Sat Crush Injury Exception Cycles Every Night Starving Sexually Half A Year Binge Self Injury Purging

Author:Caroline Knapp

“Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.”

World Doe War Sides Cold Thirds Mere China Socialism Exception Cold War Imperialism Neutrality Camouflage

Author:Mao Zedong

“If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.”

Ifs Computer Increase Handle Exception Application Reliability

Author:Anders Hejlsberg

“Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions.”

Mind Body Bits Healing Exception

Book:Manifest Your Desires: 365 Ways to Make Your Dreams a Reality

Source: Manifest Your Desires: 365 Ways to Make Your Dreams a Reality

“By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.”

Ends Wanted Motivation Social Views Moral Policy Prove Suicide Exception Illegal Physicians Convincing Euthanasia Rationale Social Policy Assisted Suicide Physician Assisted Suicide

Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

“The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.”

Way Littles Running Success Bits Steps Little Bit Seven League Exception Boots

Author:Sterling W Sill

“Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.”

Government Law Abuse Determine Exception Seizing

Book:Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics As If Freedom Mattered

Source: Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics As If Freedom Mattered

“Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.”

Giving Found Nature Lines Surprise Including Exception Splitting Exception To The Rule Triplet

Author:Pieter Zeeman

“Holiness is not some lofty experience, unattainable except to those who can leap the stars, but it is rather a lowly experience, which lowly people in the lowly walks of life can share with Jesus, by letting His mind be in them.”

People Life Mind Christian Jesus Stars Walks Christianity Share Experience Holiness Exception Leap Lofty Unattainable Walks Of Life Lowliness

Author:Samuel Logan Brengle

“Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.”

Ideas Hard Simple Common Balance Practicals Checks Common Sense Tendencies Programming Exception Immense Multitudes Disposition Simple Things

Book:Society Of Mind

Source: Society Of Mind

“You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.”

World Individual Directors Patterns Traditional Advertising Exception Advertising Agencies

Author:Ann Macbeth

“The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.”

“All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.”

Needs Care Attention Failing Concern All Things Caring Take Care Treated Sensitive Exception Neglected Esp Care And Concern

Book:Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

Source: Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

“With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.”

Way Years Has Beens Stills Important Lasts Generations Influence Genius Majors Singing Twenties Remains Musical Pops Singers Holiday Touched Exception Musical Influence

Author:Frank Sinatra

“Every day without exception - is a gift from God, entrusted to us to use for His glory.”

Use Glory Exception Gift From God

Book:Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

Source: Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.”

Proof Exception Harbinger

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.”

Men Shows Dies Fruit Exception Suspects True Faith

Book:Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.”

Should Rooms Fashion Dresses Endure Forgotten Invisible Classic Exception Fragrance Signatures

Author:Oscar de la Renta

“Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system”

Mean War States Reason Political Modern Citizens Defined Civil War Exception Categories Establishment Adversaries Totalitarianism Integrated Political Systems Elimination

Book:State of Exception

Source: State of Exception

“Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.”

Dream Your Dreams Exception Formulas Corny Live Your Dreams

Author:William James

“I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.”

Knows Dream Today Desire Choices Courses Focus Mankind Quitting Outcomes Dimensions Exception Distraction Persist Leafs Hold Fast Power Of Choice

Book:Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions

Source: Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions

“We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.”

World Chance Poverty Extremes Exception Extreme Poverty

Author:Bill Gates

“For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.”

Ifs Should Self Would Be Able Universe Speak Talking Cases Sea Truth Is Degrees Highest Models Cosmos Exception Absurdity Evident Monkeys Propose Assertion Hubris

Author:Terence McKenna

“I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.”

Believe Dream Realizing Findings Work Out Exception Believe In Love Finding Someone

Author:Taylor Swift

“There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.”

People Writing Stories Problem America Artist Black Exception Polish

Author:Gloria Naylor

“It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.”

Mean Persons Easy Interest Claims Obligation Resistance Oppression Exception Oppressors Very Mean Exception To The Rule

Author:Assata Shakur

“Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!”

Life Is Opportunity Awakening Exception

Author:Leonard Jacobson

“Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don’t hold up well under scrutiny.”

Knows Should Wells Made Ideas Reason Religious Special Demand Criticism Believer Discussion Exception Mockery Scrutiny

Author:Amanda Marcotte

“With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.”

Important Planets Achievement Exception Partnership Working With Others

Book:To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation

Source: To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation

“Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.”

Men Government Spirit Asks Heaven Grace Minutes Inspire Taught Praise Privilege Guidance Exception Portions Favour Spirit Of God

Book:Institutes of the Christian Religion

Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.”

Hate Nature Exception Monopoly

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.”

People World Desire Groups Type Salvation Exception Excluded

Author:John Calvin

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