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Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
Kiana Tom
Kindness
Respect
Treat
Everyone
Exceptions
Period
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Mikhail Bakunin
Equality
Men
Rule
Only
Point
Point Of View
Exceptions
Equal
Geniuses
Idiots
View
Naturalistic
Two
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al Gore
Future
You
Change
Experience
Before
Assuming
Everyday
Our
Those
Unprecedented
Something
Exceptions
Generally
Never
Safe
Vulnerable
Climate
Climate Change
Improbable
Going
Human
Human Beings
Happen
Happened
Confusing
Beings
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
Martin H. Fischer
Teacher
Good
Good Teacher
Rules
Pupil
Must
Exceptions
Know
Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.
John C. Maxwell
Pride
Matter
Will
Fall
Meet
Guess
Exceptions
Fail
Leaders
Demise
Prune
Who
Guarantee
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
Johnny Weissmuller
Few
Willpower
Wins
Through
Exceptions
Underdog
Sheer
Always
Who
With the notable exceptions of rum drinks, black beans, fat brown cigars, the smiles of pretty girls, hot yellow sunlight, and fat men with guitars and bongos playing mambos, rumbas, and boleros late into the night, nothing in Cuba comes easily.
Jonathan Miles
Black
Men
Girl
Nothing
Late
Rum
Easily
Sunlight
Guitars
Pretty
Pretty Girls
Brown
Beans
Drinks
Exceptions
Hot
Smiles
Cuba
Yellow
Notable
Fat
Playing
Night
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
Charles Osgood
Everybody
Rule
Exception
Exceptions
Likes
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow
Respect
Men
Country
Affection
Few
Politician
Seeks
Exceptions
Simply
Votes
Order
Want
Loved
Notable
Who
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Women
Liberty
Men
Country
Practice
Few
Situation
Every
Earth
Indeed
Tried
Unpleasant
Entirely
Civilized
Exceptions
Had
Putting
Come
Force
Principle
Principles
Discovered
Very
Intended
Any
Then
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
Felix Klein
Mathematics
Confused
Become
Enough
Everyone
Possible
Through
Exceptions
Studied
He
Countless
Until
Knows
Curve
Number
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
Hanna Rosin
Rights
Son
Long
Few
Has-Been
Civilization
Through
Exceptions
Principle
Been
Existed
Patriarchy
Enforced
Organizing
Nearly
I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that's all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.
Adam Silvera
Me
Few
Seven
Exceptions
Like
Left
Walking
Any
Scratching
Ends
Literally
Even
Things
Ear
Number
Needing
Numbers
Pulling
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.
Alafair Burke
Law
Long
Realistic
Down
Rules
Those
Law Enforcement
Fact
Exceptions
Feel
Invoke
Know
Also
Reader
Frequently
Just
In Fact
Procedures
Explanation
Enforcement
Usual
Why
Need
Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.
Alice Dreger
Service
Democracy
Suffering
Will
Doctors
Medicine
Intervention
Bad
Only
Exceptions
Generally
Primary
Know
Reduce
Repair
Lip
Patients
Using
Actually
In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
Amy Irving
Few
Older
Exceptions
Simply
Discarded
Very
Than
Actress
It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Me
Management
Few
Control
Above
Exceptions
Points
Part
True
Regime
Media
The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
Arthur Kornberg
Nature
History
Science
Few
Medicine
About
Throughout
Pursuit
Exceptions
Facts
Devices
Proven
Were
Discovered
Curiosity
Modern
The History Of
Which
Successful
Medical
Route
Basic
Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick
Made
Pronounce
Exceptions
Over
Dead
Policy
Were
Years
Pinpoint
Amendment
China
Hard
Moment
Many
People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.
Ben Stein
People
Rare
Free
Free Society
Rich
Society
Too
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Some
General
Exceptions
Makes
Getting
Which
Richer
With rare exceptions, Hollywood typically casts Spec Ops guys as macho, swaggering strongmen. As usual, Hollywood's got it wrong.
Brandon Webb
Rare
Macho
Guys
Casts
Exceptions
Wrong
Got
Hollywood
Usual
Chance leads to discoveries, and mutagenesis is a way to enhance one's chances of finding a surprise. Often it is the exceptional observations that lead to advances; once you understand exceptions, you understand the whole picture.
Bruce Beutler
You
Picture
Once
Way
Finding
Exceptional
Exceptions
Lead
Observations
Advances
Leads
Understand
Surprise
Discoveries
Often
Whole
Enhance
Chance
Chances
When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.
Buzz Aldrin
You
People
Decision
Made
Rare
Become
Back
Once
Mars
More
More People
Except
Exceptions
Environment
Permanently
Surface
Coming
Go
Very
Get
Sustaining
Who
Need
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
Chris Christie
Life
Mother
Believe
Exceptions
Take
Am
Leave
Pro-Life
Position
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
Chris Cleave
Love
Anger
Hate
People
Writing
Respond
Tell
About
Someone
Brutal
Exceptions
Know
Became
Because
Always
Did
Wants
Story
Interested
Them
Reason
Who
Why
If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'
Christine Woods
Work
Time
You
Better
Job
Somebody
Wish
Big
Before
Pay
Would
Percent
Give
Risk
Exception
Exceptions
Take
Never
Had
Look
Dues
Been
Huge
Get
Going
Big Time
Anything
Explained
Your
Certainly
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