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Exceptional Quotes (page 5)

Oscar Wilde quote: "One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live..."
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde
Charles Osgood quote: "There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be..."
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. Charles Osgood
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. James Harrington
James Thurber quote: "There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an..."
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. James Thurber
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. Thomas Sowell
Cesare Lombroso quote: "Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception..."
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. Cesare Lombroso
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. Josef Skvorecky
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing quote: "Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking,..."
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can. John Sexton
President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women. John F. Kerry
My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them. Sara Blakely
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. Augusto Roa Bastos
If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer. Ronald Reagan
I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone. Mark Twain

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