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“Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.”

Men Study Feminist Exception Academic Groupthink

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, their kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the "other" people.”

People Kind Care Together Courses Clear Claims Majority Exception Dislike

Author:Saul Alinsky

“Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.”

Would Be Exception Determinism

Author:Claude Bernard

“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.”

States Teach Tradition Exception Oppressed Emergencies

Book:Selected Writings: 1938-1940

Source: Selected Writings: 1938-1940

“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.”

“For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).”

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.”

Men Trying Self Helping Fall Christ Support Heard Fallen Exception Good Man Backsliding Self Support

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.”

Stories Dream Form Turns Language Progress Style Source Satisfaction Sexuality Oppression Exception Vehicle Exploitation Tokens This Society Drudgery

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“Our Lord Jesus Christ, a little before his departure, commissioned his apostles to Go, and teach all nations; or, as another evangelist expresses it, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. This commission was as extensive as possible, and laid them under obligation to disperse themselves into every country of the habitable globe, and preach to all the inhabitants, without exception, or limitation. They accordingly went forth in obedience to the command, and the power of God evidently wrought with them.”

Source: An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens: In which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings are Considered,

“There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’”

Years War Left Differences Perfect Party Republican Vote Democrat Civil War Exception Nuts Moderates Printed Ideological Not Perfect Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker

Author:Barney Frank

“Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably higher marks... The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.”

Care Jobs Crime Taxes Creating Standards Mark Bills Clinton Prosperity Health Care Exception Sole Providing Measurement Creating Jobs

Author:Mark Shields

“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.”

Thinking Writing Easy Stuff Brain Quality Company Growing Tree Influence Example Findings Sells Marketing Cells Department Exception Trends Publishing Emphasis Ink Brain Cells Illustrating

Author:Jabari Asim

“Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.”

Ifs Term Cost Disease Increase Innovation Favors Cures Saving Exception Regimes Healthcare Incentives Saving Money Diabetes Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Bill Gates

“The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.”

Genius Wings Contemporary Denial Exception Eagles Nests

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the exception, with no taboos, no a priori norms (‘human rights,’ ‘democracy’), respect for which would prevent us from ‘resignifying’ terror, the ruthless exercise of power, the spirit of sacrifice … if this radical choice is decried by some bleeding-heart liberals as Linksfaschismus, so be it!”

“Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.”

Firsts Judging Prove Tests Burden Officials Guarantees Exception Interpretation Amendments Speakers Freedom Of Speech Consistently First Amendment Jury Administrative

Author:William J. Brennan

“I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.”

Law Support Bases Stress International Exception Regimes Strengthening International Law Proliferation

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.”

Knows Writing Years Book Ideas Plans Strikes Exception Contracts Good Ideas Blank Sequence Amber

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.”

Successful Dangerous Poet Prose Exception Mediocrity

Author:William E. Gladstone

“One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.”

“Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.”

World Art Important Skills Rejection Exception Coping Art World Disinterest

Author:Paul Russo

“I'm a vegetarian now, but I'm willing to make an exception in the event I'm presented with people. Because I've always been fairly standoffish; I have this tendency not to get to know people very well. And I don't think there is any better way to get to know humanity than to ingest it.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Humanity Events Willing Tendencies Exception Vegetarian Better Ways

Author:John S. Hall

“Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.”

“Life consists of nothing but exceptions.”

Book:Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.”

People Needs Should Made Waiting Decision Environment Rocks Return Surface Settling Exception Mars Coming Back Pilgrim Sustaining Mayflower Plymouth Plymouth Rock

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category - humor, intelligence, creativity, and just plain entertainment value - ranks it somewhere between a bad infomercial and a local cable newscast. Rarely do I consider the act of seeing a movie to be a chore, but this kind of experience is the exception.”

Mind Kind Film Values Poor Quality Creativity Seeing Committed Entertainment Locals Exception Categories Cables Chores Pests Mind Boggling Poor Quality Infomercials

Author:James Berardinelli

“Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.”

Gun Exception Distaste

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.”

Has Beens Made Class Doors Objects Expression Argument Reasoning Exception Restriction Freedom Of Expression

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

“We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)”

Form Natural Birth Circumstances Drug Method Planning Rhythm Abortion Exception Chemicals Pills Birth Control Family Planning

Author:Judie Brown

“Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I dont think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Country Three Term Technology India Israel Exception Providing Pakistan Incentives India Pakistan

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.”

“In reading over the Constitutions of all fifty of our states, I discovered something which some of you may not know: there is in all fifty, without exception, an appeal or a prayer to the Almighty God of the universe. Through all fifty state Constitutions, without exception, there runs this same appeal and reference to God who is the Creator of our liberties and the preserver of our freedoms.”

Knows May States Running Universe Reading Prayer Liberty Constitution Creator Appeals Fifty Exception Almighty Almighty God

Author:D. James Kennedy

“I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.”

Art Book Imagine Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Exception Fishing Imagine That Fly Fishing

Author:G. E. M. Skues

“As much as anything, the anglers will clue you in to the midge hatch. You will see them hunched over in concentration like herons. The better ones will be in as close as they can get to the dimpling trout. What you'll notice is the rythmic flicking of casts toward a porpoising trout and the lack of any other motions. The only exception will be the gentle tug that sets a very small hook attached to the leader by a very delicate tippet. The playing of the trout, if it is a good one, will be a cat-and-mouse sort of ecstacy.”

Ifs Leader Sea Rivers Cat Casts Fishes Boat Gentle Lakes Exception Fishing Concentration Delicate Mice Clue Hook Trout Anglers Herons Cat And Mouse Midges

Author:Ed Engle

“In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.”

Matter America Used Views History Century Humour Pride Consequence Moved Locals Exception Efficiency Hunts Whales Fisherman Stunning Columbus Swiss Basques

Book:Flying Visits

Source: Flying Visits

“John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.”

Men Beautiful Sports Player Color Tvs Genius Blue All Time Tennis Exception Gaps Ads Norm Commentary Lame Tennis Player Blazers Volley

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt.”

Games Sports Dog Eating Balls Hot Golf Complicated Shirts Exception Hitting Sophisticated Hot Dog Mustard Ball Games Golf Ball

Author:Ray Fitzgerald

“I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Stills Actors Opportunity Rooms Acting Wonderful Lucky Treats Treated Sat Exception Vacation Disgusting Movie Actors

Author:Tina Fey

“I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.”

Mother Birth Tests Abortion Injury Exception

Author:John F. Kerry

“Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.”

Looks Bits Talking Comedy Wonderful Honesty Perspective Degrees Jokes Distance Hopefully Exception Devices

Author:Alexander Payne

“I was also partying a lot, and when you party that much, you feel irrelevant to the meaning of things; things hit you with a very sick center. And 9/11 is no exception to that. I really wondered: "How could anything go on?"”

Feels Party Goes On Sick Exception Irrelevant Anything Goes

Author:Carlos Dengler

“Most of the time for movies and stuff, with the exception of Jeff Nichols, who I've worked with a few times, you just don't know people too well. Everyone is cordial and nice and some people are very genuinely friendly, but once the movie is over you never see them again.”

People Knows Wells Stuff Nice Exception Friendly Over You

Author:Michael Shannon

“(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.”

“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.”

Ifs Inspirational Humans Happens Human Beings Happened Safe Assuming Climate Everyday Climate Change Vulnerable Exception Confusing Unprecedented Improbable

Author:Al Gore

“we live; we feel; we hurt. the world makes no exceptions.”

World Feels Hurt Exception

Author:Balthazar Getty

“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.”

Humans Hard Human Nature Complexes Exception

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.”

Results Unexpected Exception

Author:Plautus

“The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.”

Government Circumstances Combination Exception Application

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think