#exceptions

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

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Nature provides exceptions to every rule. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

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Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions. ↗

— Nick Rahall

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In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. ↗

— Amy Irving

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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. ↗

— Francis Darwin

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Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things. ↗

— James Darren

#assembly line #cut #doing #dry #exceptions

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. ↗

— Felix Klein

#confused #countless #curve #enough #everyone