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The difficulty that computers have with the exceptions, irregularities and shades of meaning that seem to come instinctively to humans has led some researchers to believe that our understanding of language is a unique product of our biological brain structure.
Exceptions to the size rule include bats, birds, moles, and turtles, but in each case, these animals have other adaptations that allow them to escape predators.
So the test failures, the exceptions, the outliers teach us what we don't know and lead us to something new.
What we do have as we take a bath in the uncertainty and unknowns and exceptions and outliers that surround us in sarcoma is easy access to what I think are those two most important values for any science: humility and curiosity.
And so exceptions and outliers in medicine teach us what we don't know, but also lead us to new thinking.
Now, very importantly, all the new thinking that outliers and exceptions lead us to in medicine does not only apply to the outliers and exceptions.
Sometimes, the outliers and the exceptions teach us things that matter quite a lot to the general population.
Like a tree standing outside a forest, the outliers and the exceptions draw our attention and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is.
We all went to school, we all invested big amounts of learning time, big amounts of pliant, childlike brain time in dictation, in the memorization of spelling rules filled, nevertheless, with exceptions.
Our traditional societal heroes are wrong, because they are the exceptions.
Of course there are many exceptions.
Now, this is a widespread practice, but I think what's really interesting is when you find exceptions to this rule, when you find cases of businesses or people in businesses who don't use their own products.
And when we think of people like this, we should only think of them as exceptional, but not as exceptions.
Thinking of them as exceptions absolves us of the collective responsibility to help students in similar situations.
You don't have to look far to find fantastic exceptions to these rules, but we all share something that makes us women.
There's only one exception, by the way, and the exceptions exist, where if you have a man and a woman on a date, the man is trying to impress the woman and the woman is trying to connect with the man, so there's going to be a little bit of tension, but that's important to know.
In the south, in the northeast, almost everywhere but with a couple of exceptions here and there.
Because with a few wonderful exceptions, very often when religious people come together, religious leaders come together, they're arguing about abstruse doctrines or uttering a council of hatred or inveighing against homosexuality or something of that sort.
Now, if you've been paying attention, you're probably anticipating that there's bad news here; we still aren't to universal love, and it's true because, although an appreciation of the golden rule is natural, it's also natural to carve out exceptions to the golden rule.
We have the capacity to carve out exceptions, put people in a special category.
Many people worry that a universal morality would require moral precepts that admit of no exceptions.
But it clearly admits some exceptions.
The fact that there are exceptions here does not change that at all.
No exceptions."
But there are some exceptions.
Even the funny parts -- with two minor exceptions -- were boring.
The "Gimore Girls" is one of those rare exceptions.
The actors (with few exceptions) seem happy to recite their lines with the least emotion possible, and the least appropriate accents.
First off, the facts are completely wrong, with a few minor exceptions, and secondly, this was just a stupid Hollywood story when these horrific murders really happened and they just made it into a cheap buck.
A few notable exceptions are "Stand By Me" from "The Body", "Carrie" from the novel of the same name, and "The Shawshank Redemption" from "Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption".
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