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exceptions
«There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.»
«There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.»
Author: Paul Eldridge
| Keywords:
Discovery of, exceptions, profundities, profundity, sole, The Discovery
«Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures.»
Author: Nancy Cartwright
(Actress)
| Keywords:
American Girl, American Revolution, Boys and Girls, exceptions, gentlemen, glamorous, gory, ladies, Ladies and, local, Losers, picture book, The American Revolution, The Star, trilogy, winners, world war, World War II
«The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
exceptions, his rule, knows, old, old man, rules, rule by, rule out, The Exceptions, The old man, The Rules, The Young Man, young, young man
«Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
exceptions, rules, The Exceptions, The Rules
«Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bankrupt, bankrupts, critic, exceptions, malignant, reviewer, reviewers, taker, takers, thief, unsuccessful
«The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrival, as a whole, bestiality, daylight, exceptions, falsities, falsity, From Hell, gaps, hydra, limbo