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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006) 76 -
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
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Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
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Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.
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Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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