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“The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.”

Book Reading Reader Exception Paradox

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.”

Shows Artist Cities Television Regard Radio Appearance Locals Generous Exception Los Angeles Television Shows Make Up Artist

Book:Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies

Source: Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies

“For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.”

Art Poetry Poet Prove Harmony Contrary Exception Aesthetics Romanticism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.”

Firsts Government Wanted Courses Found Subjects Effects Students Fixed Exception Senate

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a kindly and hospitable temper, but there has been implanted among them an almost instinctive hate of the white man. They esteem us, with rare exceptions, such as some of the missionaries, the most barbarous, treacherous, irreligious, and devilish creatures on the earth.”

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

“If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.”

Ifs Helping Seems Levels Television Higher Lows Complaining Advertising Diets Exception Programmes Calories Higher Level Adverts Worthlessness

Book:America

Source: America

“Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.”

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.”

World Hard Running Jobs Parent Water Planets Hunger Details Spread Bread Compare Contribution Exception Significance Parenthood Promotion Baths Mundane Peanuts Paychecks Peanut Butter

Author:Joyce Maynard

“The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.”

Happens Christian Religious Views Principles Issues One Thing Media Firm Exception

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.”

World Causes Exception Occupation Psychoanalysis Lustful

Author:Karl Kraus

“In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.”

Problem Aids Exception Denied Ruling Notable Uganda

Author:Barton Gellman

“I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.”

Thinking Should States Capacity Killing Exception Warfare

Author:Werner Herzog

“Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.”

Mean Government Excuse Libertarian Believer Exception Excess Really Mean No Excuses Small Government

Author:Richard Brookhiser

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”

People Ifs World Giving Humans Care Culture Found Lost Lines Levels Cities Blood Mountain Train Don't Care Exception Crash Emergencies Earthquakes Supplies Coordinates Martians Hiker Giving Blood

Author:Andy Weir

“The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.”

Way Should Whole Jesus Example Exception

Author:Carl Jung

“The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.”

Ability Quality Marriage Exception Tolerate Infidelity Proven Occasional

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception.”

Children Play Father Exception

Author:Mithun Chakraborty

“Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.”

Luck Exception Misfortunes Bad Luck

Author:Mason Cooley

“The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.”

Mind Facts Demand Exception

Author:Mason Cooley

“There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.”

Cases Support Destruction Exception Maxims Examination Confirmation Magistrates Felony

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.”

Empathy Appropriate Exception

Author:Stephen Covey

“A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?”

Men Bigs Age Winning Chance Common Half Millions Amount Fame Common Sense Exception Dozen Posterity Lottery

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.”

Book Ends Remember Reading Father Wind Grew Grew Up Dependent Exception Hospitals Household Boast Stepmothers Wind In The Willows

Author:John le Carre

“It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.”

“Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.”

Political Secret Leader Media Direct Exception Documents Lacking Occasional Constituents Political Leaders Kept Secrets

Author:Moses Finley

“The Christians committed all sorts of atrocities on the Jews by giving them the label "Killers of Christ". Hitler is not an exception but a culmination of the 2000-year long oppression of the Jews by the Christians”

Giving Years Long Christian Christ Committed Jew Oppression Labels Exception Killers Atrocities Culmination

Author:M. S. Golwalkar

“Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.”

Ifs Needs Humans Long Body Spirit Change Animal Tree Source Perspective Eternal Long Time Standing Connected Accepted Exception Living Things Long Time Ago Physical Body

Author:Esther Hicks

“Wellness that is being allowed - or the wellness that is being denied - is all about the mindset, the mood, the attitude, the practiced thoughts. There is not one exception, in any human or beast; because, you can patch them up again and again, and they will just find another way of reverting back to the natural rhythm of their mind. Treating the body really is about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic. Every bit of it, no exceptions.”

Way Mind Humans Body Bits Natural Healing Attitude Mindset Mood Rhythm Beast Wellness Exception Denied Again And Again Another Way Patches Reverting

Author:Esther Hicks

“Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.”

Philosophy Universe Ought Clock Exception

Book:THE DEER PARK

Source: THE DEER PARK

“Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)

“With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.”

Next Interest Cases Periods Activity Stress Crisis Developing Exception Mature Chapters Adolescence Orderly Next Chapter

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.”

Children Book Soul Literature Sound Written Theory Criticism Assuming Critics Exception Children's Books Literary Criticism Children's Literature Lenient

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.”

People Rich Exception Get Rich Free Society

Author:Ben Stein

“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”

Men Form Opinion Morality Ordinary Ethics Every Man Exception

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“A lot of heavyweights, with the exception of a few Eastern Europe fighters, they really look like being a heavyweight is just like, who can eat the most Pizza Hut and McDonalds.”

Looks Europe Fighter Exception Eastern Pizza Mcdonalds Huts Heavyweights Eastern Europe

Author:Randy Johnson

“Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.”

Want Kind Bigs Film Audience Mass Appeals Filmmaker Exception Mentality Mainstream

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.”

Knows Age Successful Groups Proud Exception Isolated Single Women

Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

“They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.”

Believe Moving Mountain Intention Exception Good Intentions Move Mountains Bulldozers

Book:Managing in the Next Society

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Existence Theory Balance Offers Music Is Opposites Filled Good Things Exception Joyous Bleak Respite

Author:George Carlin

“Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally you may make an exception. But, you do so knowing you're attempting to do it for a certain reason and you have to be very careful not to try to make too many exceptions, because then you wind up as a franchise with a team full of exceptions, which is not what you want.”

Want Trying May Reason Philosophy Certain Knowing Team Wind Sticks Careful What You Want Buying Exception Attempting Groceries

Author:Bill Parcells

“I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.”

Thinking Reason Stars Simple Achieve Fame Population Exception Movie Star Fractions

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“If you're wearing a jacket, as I always am, the sweater vest always needs to be buttoned, with the exception of the bottom button. But if you're going sans jacket, you can leave it open.”

Ifs Needs Bottom Exception Buttons Jackets Sweaters Vests Sweater Vests

Author:Tim Gunn

“Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Play Happens Purpose Television Window Machines Notes Relate Exception Broads Exaggeration Watching Television Fodder Note Taking

Author:George Carlin

“There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.”

Ideas Courses Company Exception Great Idea

Author:Sam Altman

“I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?”

Thinking Seems Pay Rocks Musician Research Critics Inspired Newspapers Magazines Crafts Journalist Exception Neglected Legendary

Author:Emily Haines

“The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.”

Important Facts Political Enlightenment Scientist Philosopher Exception Mills

Author:Mario Bunge

“Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices.”

Remember Community Circumstances Battle Vices Chosen Exception Asceticism

Book:Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

“But one of the rules I don't like to break is we still do - 95% of our movies are low budget. We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions, there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.”

Thinking Feels Trying Stills Quality Break Produce Highest Lows Bigger Sticks Budgets Exception Innovative

Author:Jason Blum