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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

Topics: Affection Country Exceptions Few Loved Men Notable Order Politician Respect Seeks Simply Votes Want Who

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Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

~Eli Broad

Topics: Acquire Administration Any Art Burdens Exceptions Exhibitions Few Money Most Museums Pay Really Security

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I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.

~Eli Broad

Topics: Arts Believe Broader Democratization Educate Exceptions Mean Much Museums Public Responsibility Some Think I Think I Believe I Believe In

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With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Adult Age Book Come Coming Coming Of Age Consensus Crop Exceptions Few Industry Interested Novel Primarily Protagonist Publishing Questions Then Up Worldview Young Young Adult

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For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Accompanied Arab Behind Decades Deficit Economic Exceptions Freedom Globe Human Human Nature Laws Left Liberty Many Nations Nature Other Parts Political Politics Seemed Social States Were While

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Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

~Elmore Leonard

Topics: Barry Book Describe Exceptions Happen Ice More Never Open Reporting Snow Than Want Ways Weather Who You

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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

Topics: Any Civilized Come Country Discovered Earth Entirely Every Exceptions Few Force Had Indeed Intended Liberty Men Practice Principle Principles Putting Situation Then Tried Unpleasant Very Women

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By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: Adopt Been Convincing Correct End Establishing Euthanasia Everything Exceptions Had Illegal Keeps Life Moral Motivation Policy Proving Rest Social Social Policy Suicide Those Tried View Wanted Were Who Would

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

~Felix Klein

Topics: Become Confused Countless Curve Enough Everyone Exceptions He Knows Mathematics Number Possible Studied Through Until

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A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Access Business Cardinal Decide Exceptions Explicit Gaining Genetic Information Must Nobody Permission Principle Requiring Sees Should Stray Take Terms Test Unless Want Who Without You Your

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