Margaret Fuller
Transcendentalist, Writer
"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."
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Exception To The Rule
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C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere."
James Thurber
Cartoonist, Author
"There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception."
Assata Shakur
Activist
"It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out."
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."
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"The exception tests the rule."
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"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."
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"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."
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