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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by haihaibye on Friday June 10, 2022 @05:38AM (#31691908)
> The exception proves the rule

This is also a common English proverb

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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by 01acheru on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:31AM (#31693128)
It comes from Latin: Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis.

The last part (in casibus non exceptis) is usually omitted, giving it the meaning we have now. The original meaning was a little different.

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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by gradschoolfail on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:12PM (#31696123)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exception_that_proves_the_rul...
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