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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing as a draft exception.

Joe Larsen

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Victor Kiam

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Pierre joseph Proudhon

It's not every day that they come that size, and can run as fast as the smaller ones do. So right now, he's pretty much an exception.

Tony Nathan

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Jane Addams

In doubles we got off to a fairly good start, with the exception of number one.

Steve Rodecap

The only exception is if your office is a detached structure.

Martin Nissenbaum

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Isaac Stern

In the case of Central America, prison without trial has become the rule, not the exception.

Luis Ramirez

These adopted children, with one exception, are the only group of people in the state that can't get access to their information.

Don Siriani

It's part of the ban. We made an exception for the all-century team and only for that instance.

Rich Levin

Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.

Ben Crenshaw

Every year we have to outdo ourselves and this year is no exception.

Christina Norman

There is no one person in the Bush administration who is indispensable — with the exception of the president.

Rick Santorum

They say no one is indispensable. That is certainly true of ambassadors. But Amanda surely comes close to being the exception.

David Manning

German public education is free with the exception of the European Business School.

Anja Thiessen

I believe it would be a waste of time to continue with the present application for a reasons exception.

David Thomas

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Groucho Marx

We're probably over the worst with the exception of some incredible cold weather in the mid-continent.

Allen Mesch

It would be very hard for them not to (grant an exception).

Gerald Okamoto

This year is going to be even bigger and better. Each year we have a huge crowd, and this year should be no exception.

Cindy Morrison

Right now it is not what I would call a standard alternative. It's usually the exception.

Hillary Isebrands

It's the rule rather than the exception.

Robin Davis

I have a lot of experience, and it's true someone 55 will be working, but they will not be working as hard as someone who is 40. I am 80, and I'm working hard, but I'm the exception to the case.

Abe Simoff

Winona is no exception to that.

Justin Green

All Latin American markets were dragged down by the 'Samba effect', and the Caracas market was no exception.

Hector Perez

The building is fine with the exception of the little puncture on the end of the building.

Michael Yormark

It's the exception today, but in 10 to 20 years the bronze level will be the building standard.

Jim Folkman

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

John Andrew Holmes

With the exception of the battery and the converter-inverter device, everything is made at Toyota.

Paul Nolasco

Today, students returning to the classroom are the rule -- not the exception.

Jan Jacobson

We are satisfied with the final judgement, with the exception of the amount of compensation.

Wang Yadong

The rivalry helps our recruiting. We're very competitive with them in most programs. With the exception of football.

Rob Spear

In this business, it's the rule, not the exception, that you'll probably get fired once in your career.

Sheila Hyland

It's a French melodrama, and everyone loves a French film. This one should be no exception.

Angela Jones

Truckers have contributed from virtually every state in the country with the exception of Hawaii.

Dave Menzer

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Alfred De Musset

As a country we shouldn't have to legislate common decency, but through the actions of this group, they've proved there should be an exception to the rule.

Jason Wallin

In truth, they are compounding the problem. A person who breaks the law will answer to duly-constituted authorities for their criminal acts, and so-called vigilantes are no exception.

Raul Gonzalez

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

Cam Mcleay

The analysis is defective. The federal government seems to have created another exception for gays and lesbians.

Jenny Pizer

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

David M. Ogilvy

With the exception of a little plateau here or there, they have pretty much gone up steadily.

Wendy Roberts

We've already talked to people and it's completely safe, ... And with the exception of a few odds and ends, we're almost done.

Chuck Wilson

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue

This court likes taking on hot button issues, with abortion as an exception.

Edward Lazarus