"Not knowing doesn't exempt you.
Even divinity doesn't exempt you.
The process of learning doesn't exempt you from criticism if you make that process public.
Being an artist does not exempt you from considering the effect of your actions on others.
And then this – shattering the fantasy that surviving one tragedy somehow exempts you from another.
Being brilliant, as I believe James is, doesn't exempt you from checking your facts.
Surviving beyond that (as Twitter, Facebook and many others have done) doesn't exempt you from having to adapt.
"Just because you decide to use 140 characters about how you are feeling at the moment doesn't exempt you from legal exposure, Mr. Freedman said.
Passing the test exempts you from taking a road test at the New York Department of Motor Vehicles and entitles you to a 10percentt discount on your insurance.
"Simply because you're at Harvard does not exempt you from the same kind of rules and regulations that Harvard lovingly imposes upon the rest of America," he shot back at one critic.
