Quotes with exception

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  • Thomas J. Peters The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Camilla Lackberg The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Boris Spassky The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Adrian Lyne Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Samuel Butler There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Madame Neckar Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
    Madame Neckar
     
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  • Anthony Storr With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
    Anthony Storr
    English psychiatrist and author
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Olin Miller Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • Alfred Jodl It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
    Alfred Jodl
    German general and war criminal (1890 - 1946)
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