#exceptions

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

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Nature provides exceptions to every rule. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

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All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

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Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions. ↗

— Nick Rahall

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A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

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In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. ↗

— Amy Irving

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And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. ↗

— David Jones

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