Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.”
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“rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.”
Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
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“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind. The whole of our science is based upon empirical, repeatable experiments. Whereas thought is not in that category, you can’t take thought into a laboratory. The essential fact of our existence, perhaps the only fact of our existence – our own thought and perception is ruled off-side by the science it has invented. Science looks at the universe, doesn’t see itself there, doesn’t see mind there, so you have a world in which mind has no place. We are still no nearer to coming to terms with the actual dynamics of what consciousness is.
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Chris Argyris (1923–2013) American business theorist/Professor Emeritus/Harvard Business School/Thought Leader at Monitor Group
Source: On organizational learning (1999), p. 438 as cited in: Leni Wildflower, Diane Brennan (2011) The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching. p. 159
“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”
Corey Robin (1967) American academic
Fear: The History of a Political Idea
“There was one exception to the rule that all our foes have committed the Decadence Assumption.”
David Brin (1950) novelist, short story writer
A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war... (2009)
Context: There was one exception to the rule that all our foes have committed the Decadence Assumption. Ho Chi Minh never underestimated America. His avowed hero was George Washington and he remained in awe of the U. S., all his life. He remains the only enemy leader who ever defeated us at war, and then only because our hubris (not decadence) got the better of us.
