This is sheer thread drift, but I have spent quite a few hours now thinking about that remark "There are exceptions to every rule." There really is a lot hidden in it, so I recommend it as something to tease away at in idle moments.

For example, my starting point was that it is a demarcation between scientific and non-scientific thinking. It is axiomatic in science - at least physical sciences and mathematics - that there are underlying rules without exceptions. So we try to formulate scientific laws that have no exceptions and, should we find one, we become very excited and are not happy until we have reformulated the way we express the law so there is no exception. Now some of these laws are of the form 'under these circumstances, this simplified version of the full law can be used as an extremely good approximation'; again exceptions to the rule lead to reformulation of the conditions when the simplification can be used.

So scientific thinking is never comfortable with the idea that "that there are exceptions to the rule". Non-scientific thinking is, on the other hand, inclined to react 'There an exception to the rule? Whatever - move on".

And every one of us is a blend of both attitudes.

As I say, that was my starting point.   In the process I wandered (and indeed wondered) through the law (which also does not admit exceptions but there are a surprising number of situations where you cannot decide if you have broken the law or not), politics, religion, how left and right wing related to this and many other topics.

I won't say any more about this here, but I repeat, I think it is well worth reflecting on.