#exception

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#another #cases #childhood #convinced #essential

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#closed #controls #exception #free #free societies

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#endure #exception #regimes #repressive #venezuela

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it. ↗

— Walter Lord

#although #couple #even #exceptions #families

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#chain #different #different person #early #exception

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#characterizes #comfortable #course #cynical #decline

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#eat #exception #humans #like #only

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #almost #destroy #disagreeable

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#change #closed #disingenuous #doors #either