1.
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.
Fernando Pessoa
2.
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
Bill W.
3.
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
Denis Diderot
4.
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
Kurt Gödel
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The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
Bette Davis
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Blanket statements are always stupid. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Craig Benzine
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In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.
Arjuna Ardagh
8.
As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.
Harry Stack Sullivan
9.
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber
11.
If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best.
Kanye West
12.
There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.
William James
13.
Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
Alfred Marshall
15.
God is concerned about everything that concerns us - without exception.
Billy Graham
16.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Lawrence Lessig
18.
Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.
Reuben Fine
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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.
Oscar Wilde
20.
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
Carl Schmitt
21.
Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.
Calamity Jane
22.
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
Iris Johansen
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Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.
Wassily Kandinsky
25.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
26.
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
James F. Cooper
27.
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
28.
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
Ron Perlman
29.
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.
Jeremy Grantham
31.
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
Eddie Murphy
32.
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
Plautus
33.
One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
Paul Simon
35.
In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
Amy Irving
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Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.
Melissa Harris-Perry
37.
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Salman Rushdie
38.
The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.
Johannes Stark
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton
40.
With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.
Park Dietz
41.
There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.
M. Scott Peck
43.
Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.
David Lubar
44.
I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.
Gish Jen
45.
It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.
Frank Knight
46.
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
Tyne Daly
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Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
Ursula K. Le Guin
48.
Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.
C. S. Lewis
50.
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
Mason Cooley