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“Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future. Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper. Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit.”

Source: The Message of Thessalonians

“There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.”

Laughing Amount Deny Celebrate Exception Flaws Vacuums

Book:The Works of Walt Whitman

Source: The Works of Walt Whitman

“The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.”

Trying Two Corruption Invention Exception Inventor Notable

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.”

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.”

Humans I Can Action Angry Filled Rage Ashamed Exception

Author:Nicholas D'Agosto

“Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.”

Humans May Species Exception Human Species Ingrates

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.”

People Want Luxury Exception Admiration

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.”

Novel Too Much Sacrifice Exception Plot Altars

Book:Reality Hunger

Source: Reality Hunger

“Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.”

Men Want Purpose Energy Ability Careers Politician Incredibles Charm Exception Appetite Notable

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them”

Humans Energy Human Beings Creating Exception

Author:Masami Saionji

“Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake. ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception. ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!”

People World Believe Humans Different Energy Mistake Watches Fate Imagine Amount Agree Exception Different Worlds Err Is Human

Author:Veronique Vienne

“If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.”

Ifs Men Disease Dust Exception God Image

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.”

Believe Chess Exception

Author:Reuben Fine

“Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.”

Character Jesus Christianity Teaching Example Evidence Exception

Book:Many Infallible Proofs: A Series of Chapters on the Evidences of Christianity, Or, The Written and Living Word of God

Source: Many Infallible Proofs: A Series of Chapters on the Evidences of Christianity, Or, The Written and Living Word of God

“I like me some of Wayne stuff. I think he's the one exception as far as the auto-tune thing goes.”

Thinking Stuff Like Me Tunes Exception Wayne Auto Tune

Author:GZA

“The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.”

Should House Library University Intellect Exception Graduates Transcendental

Author:Vartan Gregorian

“...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.”

Knows Quality Successful Revolution Management Exception Participation

Author:Joseph M. Juran

“What I've realized is that all of these people are so successful because they love what they do and they work exceptionally hard. No one gets successful in this business by fluke really. There are probably a couple of exceptions but most people just work so hard. They are working every day and they are doing their prep.”

People Hard Successful Couple Exception Preps Flukes

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.”

Knows World May Doe Problem Products Majors Regard Lays Familiar Exception Software Usual Users Bugs Incidents Competent Programmers

Author:David Parnas

“We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.”

“All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.”

Exception Generalization

Author:Kurt Gödel

“There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.”

Ifs Want Exception

Author:William James

“All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.”

Men Including Every Man Motive Exception

Book:Human Happiness

Source: Human Happiness

“[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.”

World Looks Two War States Three Left President United United States Office Seven Debt Barack War Of The Worlds Exception World War Ii World War I Ratios

Author:Paul Krugman

“[I]n America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely, the fiscal irresponsibility that prevails when, and only when, hard-line conservatives are in power.”

Hard America Lines Records Fashion Responsible Exception Irresponsibility Good Records

Author:Paul Krugman

“Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.”

Men Wonderful Exception Collapse Deities Cauldrons Wonderful Man

Author:Charles Darwin

“The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want.”

Thinking Want Feels Government Can Do Party Truth Is Constitution Historical Exception Courageous Unfortunate Historical Truth

Author:Andrew Napolitano

“Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?”

World Doe Done Government Would Be Care Running Imagine Building Industry Cost Prison Health Care Exception Imagine That Garbage Housing Collecting

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.”

People World Way Goal Best Way Primaries Making Money Exception Motivated Great People Business World

Book:Ross Perot: My Life & the Principles for Success

Source: Ross Perot: My Life & the Principles for Success

“I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.”

Hate I Hate Exception

Author:Gish Jen

“It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions.”

“Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.”

Years Book Past Forever Achieve Disappear Lists Fifty Exception Popularity Lively Graveyard

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.”

Inspirational Giving Blood Percent Exception Donation Give 100 Percent Donating Blood

Author:Bill Murray

“Save 3-6 months of expenses in a Rainy Day fund. Know why? Cause it is going to rain, and you aren't the exception.”

Knows Causes Months Rain Exception Fund Expenses Rainy Rainy Day

Author:Dave Ramsey

“With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world.”

World Want Military Complexes Peaceful Exception Peaceful World Military Industrial Complex

Author:Ron Paul

“Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.”

Values Exception Loan

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.”

Useless Exception

Author:Samuel Johnson

“We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"”

Thinking Want Should Believe Ends Guy Situation Shame Exception Lions Looking Back Bad Guys Shame On Me

Author:Taylor Swift

“The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.”

Mind Ability Exception Unlimited Shortcomings Rationalize

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.”

Struggle South London Parks Exception Pace Wounded Traffic Routes Lanes Gnats

Author:Michael Gove

“I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.”

I Can Whole Honestly Exception Delicious Burgers Carbs

Author:Nate Berkus

“Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Film Fall Loses Huge Amount Budgets Rely Decent Exception Revenue Props Fall Back Dvds

Author:Eric Fellner

“If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception.”

Ifs Long Remember Asks Exception Animation

Author:Alex Hirsch

“In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.”

Liberty Defense Exception Civil Liberties

Author:A. J. Muste

“Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it.”

Doe Lying Attitude Groups Concerned Exception

Author:Steven Biko

“The burning bushes, the smoking mountains, . . . the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities; but they were the exceptions. . . . Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication.”

Reality Missing Communication Mountain Flow Constant Burning Smoking Exception Expecting Spectacular Burning Bush

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Girl Lost Rocks Like You Band Exception Punk Norm Punk Rock Rock Bands

Author:Tobi Vail

“No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.”

Book Real Play Faces Turns Names Forget Rooms Cases Saws Wonderful Conditions Television Glad Evening Exception Never Forget Curtains Adverse

Author:Groucho Marx

“I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.”

Culture Proportion Exception Nuts Secretary Extremist Bloggers

Author:Kenneth Clarke

“I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.”

Thinking Mean Long Art Made Stills Film Struggle Shapes Photography Historical Significant Collections Exception Devices Traps Usage

Author:Stan Brakhage

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