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Quotes About Exemption

I have never served on a jury because MPs were exempted - or banned, I think.
~ Michael Portillo
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
If you are an addict yourself, how are you going to fight drugs? That's why the dope test is compulsory for Punjab Police personnel and youngsters joining, regardless of what newspapers are saying that women should be exempted.
~ Amarinder Singh
Turgenev's achievement lies in how he succeeded, in spite of himself, his country, and his time, in exempting his work from public duty. This has given it that unnameable quality that makes every sentence true, every silence trustworthy.
~ Hisham Matar
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.
~ Plutarch
Theirs was a private language, not shared with the rest of the world, and so exempt from censure, sheer burlesque.
~ Stewart O'Nan
People who don't think the rules apply to them, Kit was beginning to learn, are surprised and offended when others don't recognize and honor their exemption.
~ Sue Halpern
Many other unions have taken advantage of this exemption and are better interpreted as enterprises selling the services of cartellizing an industry than as labor organizations. The Teamster's Union is perhaps the most notable.
~ Milton Friedman
What is called "planning" in political rhetoric is the government's suppression of other people's plans by superimposing on them a collective plan, created by third parties, armed with the power of government and exempted from paying the costs that these collective plans impose on others.
~ Thomas Sowell
If white racism is the cause of lower educational and economic outcomes for black Americans, why are black Nigerians exempt?
~ Thomas Sowell
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
~ George Bernard Shaw
No nation can have the policy that whole classes of people are immune from immigration law or enforcement. It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. The message is that no one is exempt from immigration law.
~ Stephen Miller
He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.
~ Richard Whately
Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
~ John Sununu
Think of you today how am i and where you belong need to understand meant to do. "Who cares your like might be exemption for me my worked well done. Love?
~ Jonathan Guarino
Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.
~ Thomas Sydenham
Neither he [Ferenczi] nor Freud believed that a person should be exempted from legal punishment--or worse, that he should be punished by compulsory psychiatric treatments--because of psychoanalytic information about him. In the light of current thought, this is a startling and sobering fact.
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
The upper classes are by custom exempt or excluded from industrial occupations, and are reserved for certain employments to which a degree of honour attaches.
~ Thorstein Veblen
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
~ Patricia Fripp
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering.
~ Francois de Fenelon
The first is that religion and the churches are manufactured, and that this salient fact is too obvious to ignore. The second is that ethics and morality are quite independent of faith, and cannot be derived from it. The third is that religion is—because it claims a special divine exemption for its practices and beliefs—not just amoral but immoral.
~ Christopher Hitchens
the state of California; state support for parish schools—or, if this cannot be had, exemption
~ Upton Sinclair
Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?
~ Laini Taylor
At the very bottom of human experience comes a set of certain privileges, a special zone where the rules apply to everyone else except you. It was good of the world to build itself that way, and include that tiny consolation prize for those who have nothing else to recommend their lives in that moment. The
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde