Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: rule

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Quoted In The Grove:

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
~Franz Grillparzer

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
~George Osner

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.
~Samuel Butler

EndQuote:
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
~Margaret Fuller

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
~Seneca

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can ‒ and surely will at times ‒ fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
~Dr Joyce Brothers

The rule of progress is, take the path regardless of the obstacles while the rule of stagnation is, avoid the path with regard to the obstacles.
~Goa Kerle

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The world can only be limitless and boundless if you let it control yourself and rule over you.
~Clifford Villanueva Villalon

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Oh, I love the kids more than any other age group. I hate to say that, but new life is with new kids, you know? They’re the future. The sheer fact that they’re young and eager, that’s what makes them rule.
~Betsey Johnson

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn’t have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.
~Lionel Shriver

A4Thought:
The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.
~Lawrence Kutner

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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
~Katharine Whitehorn

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
~Jonathan Swift

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
~Anthony Trollope

AfterThought:
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
~John Lubbock

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Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
~Edward Carpenter

One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.
~Jane Austen

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
~George Ade (writer)

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The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.
~Terence Winter

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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
~Samuel Butler

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That’s the rule of life.
~Lata Mangeshkar

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.
~Terence

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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
~Blaise Pascal

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
~Mark Twain

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
~Winston Churchill

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
~Oscar Wilde

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Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else’s idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
~Marco Rubio

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
~John Wilkins

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
~James M Barrie

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I mean, most actresses can’t host and most hostesses can’t act, and that’s the general rule in the industry.
~Brooke Burke

The first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.
~Charlie Munger (investor)

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
~Paul R Ehrlich

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force ‒ that thoughts rule the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
~Cesare Lombroso

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
~Rebecca Harding Davis

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The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Paul Hawken (environmentalist)

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
~Elisha Gray (lost the great patent race with Alexander Graham Bell)

Cats rule the world.
~Jim Davis (of Garfield)

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Early is on time, on time is late and late is forgotten. Is it a rule? No. It’s my personal mantra, and I feel like I have a lot of respect for time. I really do. It’s precious. We shouldn’t take it for granted.
~Brian Flores

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind’s eye the notion of a better life ahead.
~Edward Hoagland

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
~Andy Rooney (TV/radio)

An individual’s reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong…
~Dietrich Dörner

Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
~Andy Rooney

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I eat about two meals a day vegan, is my rule of thumb. When I’m traveling, all bets are off, but I don’t cook meat in the house. I rarely cook eggs. I never use milk. But when I go out to eat for a special treat, I’ll have some meat. But I know, personally, that’s the best I’m ever going to do in my life.
~Adam Conover

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday ‒ but never jam today.
~Lewis Carroll

For “Is” and “Is-not” though with Rule and Line
And “Up-and-down” by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom,
I Was never deep in anything but ‒ Wine.
~The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren’t scared of anything.. it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you.
~Missy Good

My grandmother’s number-one rule was that once you start something, you don’t quit. From a young age, she never let me give up on anything.
~Tori Bowie

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
~W Clement Stone

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There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
~Bo Bennett

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
~Harper Lee

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with ‒ a man is what he makes of himself.
~Alexander Graham Bell

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I leave this rule for others when I’m dead,
Be always sure you’re right‒then go ahead.
~Davy Crockett (US Rep, TN, frontiersman)

Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
~Tallulah Bankhead

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
~Adam Smith

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One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them
~DEC product comment

My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
~Malcolm Gladwell

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
~Charles Buxton

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When you open your insight, realize your value, understand your surroundings; surely, no one else can rule your life; otherwise, wealthy, political, and religious idiots and dastards determine to rule your life.
~Ehsan Sehgal

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
~Alfred Adler

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
~Earl Nightingale

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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
~Pablo Picasso

You think there’s a rule book, in a way, until you realize there’s absolutely no rule book, and you can use a red carpet to express something about yourself. There are so many wonderful designers in the world, and they create such wonderful things. Why go with something uninteresting?
~Elizabeth Debicki

The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
~Paris Hilton

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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn’t ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
~Anand Giridharadas

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it’s a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.
~Mariella Frostrup

Here is the rule to remember in the future, when anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
~Marcus Aurelius

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Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world?
~Euripides

The biggest mistake we humans make is thinking we rule it all, when in fact, we rule nothing.
~Cometan

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
~Herodotus

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As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.
~Wystan Hugh Auden

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
~Buddha

One can change several times its system, principle, rule, law, and even constitution; it brings nothing until one changes its mindset; indeed, it flowers and fragrances every system.
~Ehsan Sehgal

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Political correctness is a loaded gun that the individual holds to their own head. Where laws can’t stomp on freedom of speech, automatons rule other automatons via political correctness and social acceptance.
~James Scott

Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can’t make up their own minds.
~Seth Hoffman

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
~Plato

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A person gets the people around oneself not by own desire or wish, but as who s/he character-wise is. That’s perhaps the first cardinal rule of Karma.
~Anuj Somany

Actions have consequences…first rule of life. And the second rule is this ‒ you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
~Holly Lisle

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Editor’s Note:
Since the great weight of this edition is taken up with government and politics, and not wishing to turn an already overlong effort into something cumbersome, this edition of the Post & Review is delivered on two pages.

The four largest sections [Democracy, Politics (general), Imperial Rule, Law] are to be found at: https://wordgrovepost.com

Related categories are to be found below.

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If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.
~Lysander Spooner

The freedom fighters in India’s long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
~Neel Mukherjee

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
~Jefferson Davis (ex-Pres, Confederate States)

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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The majority-rule society has produced nothing more than heart-ache and intolerance. Throughout this majority-rule period it has been the members of the minority who have made an impact. It only takes one person to kill a hundred. It only takes one dictator to oppress millions. For better or for worse, it is the daring few who have shaped this so-called majority-rule society.
~Jonar Nader

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Inventors, pioneers, radicals, visionaries; these have ventured from the lonely and costly camp of minority only to be obstructed by majority-rule concepts that tolerate inferiority, hinder progress, harbor injustice, and pose limits within the decaying status quo.
~Jonar Nader

The Natural Liberty of Man is to be free from any Superior Power on Earth, and not to be under the Will or Legislative Authority of Man, but to have only the Law of Nature for his Rule.
~John Locke

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In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
~Robert W Welch, Jr (John Birch Society)

Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
~Larry Flynt (of Hustler)

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One can describe and specify honesty and dishonesty, exemplifying as the majority vote constitutes and passes the law and rule; conversely, minority consensus disregards and violates that, denying the legality, without accountability.
~Ehsan Sehgal

What a happy conception, then, was it for Congress to apply this simple rule, that the will of the majority shall govern…
~James Buchanan

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The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.
~Paul Johnson (journalist)

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
~Mortimer Adler

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
~John Locke

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
~Jonathan Sacks (rabbi, ex-House of Lords, UK)

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
~Abraham Lincoln

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
~Pope John Paul II

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For Obama, ‘rule of law’ is merely his political silly-putty.
~Wayne LaPierre (ex-CEO, NRA)

Obviously a president can’t rule as a king and ban all guns. But I think we need a president who is going to make sure that there is gun control and that people still feel like their freedoms are intact.
~Paul F Tompkins

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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
~James Fenimore Cooper

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
~William F Buckley, Jr

What is the use of having a king who reigns but does not rule the population?
~Mwanandeke Kindembo (Congolese author)

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
~Dalai Lama

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The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from a ‘socialist’ or ‘communistic’ New Deal.
~Jamelle Bouie (columnist)

Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.
~Deeyah Khan (Norwegian dir)

If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don’t you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
~Donald Tusk

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Just as there is a very short distance between the U.S. and Cuba, there is a very short distance between a democracy and a dictatorship where the government gets to decide what to do, how to think, and how to live. And sometimes your freedom is not taken away at gunpoint, but instead it is done one piece of paper at a time, one seemingly meaningless rule at a time, one small silencing at a time. Never allow the government ‒ or anyone else ‒ to tell you what you can or cannot believe or what you can and cannot say or what your conscience tells you to have to do or not do.
~Armando Valladares (poet/diplomat, formerly imprisoned)

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Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others.
~Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Independence of the media, freedom of the press, freedom of expression and the right of access to information are vital if the media are to be able to perform their watchdog function in a democratic society governed by the rule of law.
~Oscar Auliq-Ice

Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.
~Eva Moskowitz

In a democracy ‒ even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-elitist one ‒ the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.
~Nadine Gordimer

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When I started working in human rights, Eastern Europe was communist, South Africa was under apartheid and South Korea had military rule. All the changes have come about not because of the militaries or government but because small groups of people spoke out against what was unfair and unjust.
~Kerry Kennedy

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
~Albert Camus

It’s about the principles, it’s about the rule of law. You don’t have to stay silent when you see something that you don’t like that is inconsistent of these timeless principles.
~George T Conway III

The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost if everyone waits around for someone else.
~Timothy D Snyder

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It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon ‒so long as there is no answer to it‒ gives claws to the weak.
~George Orwell

[W]henever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence. Whensoever therefore the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society; and either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power, the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty.
~John Locke

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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don’t think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
~Edi Rama

Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.
~Tom Tancredo

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Many and subtle are the ideological weapons that the State has wielded through the centuries. One excellent weapon has been tradition. The longer that the rule of a State has been able to preserve itself, the more powerful this weapon; for then, the X Dynasty or the Y State has the seeming weight of centuries of tradition behind it.
~Murray Rothbard

After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.
~Pedro Pierluisi

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I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.
~Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (founding father, Turkey)

Turkey shares Europe’s fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.
~Ali Babacan

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Islamic fundamentalists in dark areas of Libya rifled through leftover stockpiles of conventional, chemical, and biological munitions from Muammar Gaddafi’s rule. Who knows where they are now?
~Pete Hoekstra

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
~Anna Lindh

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
~Joichi Ito

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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
~Yitzhak Shamir

The Palestinians have yet to demonstrate a commitment to the rule of law.
~Mark Meadows

The ‘day after Hamas’ will only be achieved with Palestinian entities taking control of Gaza, accompanied by international actors, establishing a governing alternative to Hamas’s rule. This, above all, is an interest of the State of Israel.
~Yoav Gallant

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.
~Ariel Sharon

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Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not been able to witness the golden rule of Yao and Shun and other sage emperors of ancient China. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people under the cruel exploitation of the Tartar Slaves.
~Sun Yat-sen

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China’s suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.
~Ai Weiwei

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
~Steve Forbes

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it’s a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I’m confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
~Manmohan Singh

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There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.
~Lysander Spooner

When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses. It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of … I should be exceedingly sorry, sir, that our rule of naturalization excluded a single person of good fame that really meant to incorporate himself into our society; on the other hand, I do not wish that any man should acquire the privilege, but such as would be a real addition to the wealth or strength of the United States.
~James Madison

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Under President Obama, we saw an unwarranted extension of amnesty programs which neglected the root of the illegal immigration crisis. We saw a troubling lack of urgency in addressing the sanctuary cities which subvert the rule of law.
~Luther Strange

As a rule, for any society that is single-mindedly interested in its own promotion and thus survival, it would have to have a huge population and it would have to send its people out, not letting too many others in.
~Thorsten J Pattberg (German philologist and cultural critic)

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Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.
~Elton Gallegly

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.
~Russell Pearce

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I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something ‒ I worked in HR at the time ‒ they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.
~Rae Carson (writer)

My parents brought my sister and me to the United States to escape the communist takeover of Cuba. They sought to build their life and raise their children in a democracy in which the rule of law served to protect the people rather than operate as an instrument of oppression.
~Alejandro Mayorkas

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you’re going to have to work twice as hard.
~Lin-Manuel Miranda

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To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
~Confucius

A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust… Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.
~Kyrsten Sinema (ex-Sen, AZ)

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.
~Janet Yellen

As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.
~Richard Thaler (Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics)

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

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
~Ronald Reagan

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I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, … The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply.
~Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
~Aneurin Bevan

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The Internal Revenue Service is everything the so-called tax protesters said it was; nonresponsive, unable to withstand scrutiny, tyrannical, and oblivious to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.
~Joseph Banister

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.
~Jacob Rees-Mogg

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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
~Theodore Roosevelt

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
~Stefan Zweig

Drone attacks subvert the rule of law ‒ we become judge, jury, and executioner ‒ at the push of a button.
~Mark McKinnon

The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers’ attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
~Andrew Rosenthal

There’s an unspoken rule post-Cold War American Presidents have used when describing the awesome power of our nuclear arsenal; the more devastating the ability to destroy the enemy, the more restrained the language should be.
~Rick Wilson

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?
~Ron Paul

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First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
~Donald Rumsfeld

The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.
~Tom Golisano (of Paycheck, billionaire)

It’s almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.
~Rick Perlstein

I have long maintained that voting rights is more important than preserving any Senate procedural rule.
~Raphael Warnock (Sen, GA)

We as a people need to declare that we stand with rule of law and not with the false tales of the revolutionary Marxist forces, who most recently have rebranded themselves from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter.
~David A Clarke, Jr ( black sheriff)

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct ‒ unity of purpose.
~Malcolm X

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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
~Carter G Woodson

One drop of black blood and you’re black. That was the rule. That’s what kept the wall between whites and blacks was this one drop rule. So I was raised with absolutely no ambiguity about that.
~Shelby Steele

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
~B R Ambedkar

Let me explain to you dumbies. You know the darker color in fruits, beans, rice, that kind of stuff… so you know the darker stuff is more nutritious, right? And you know how them black people have got so good in art and the sports world stuff… the only two fields we let them play in, really. And you think we want to compete against that in the real world? I’m just trying to level the playing field here folks, making it more fair, that’s all.
~D T Rump

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~Mike Brown: Rule of Thirds (3:00) artistically speaking

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~Catherine Chalmers: We Rule (4:11) nature, the tiny world, ant-size, with a twist

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~Jake Cohn: Rule (3:05) spectacular skiing in the cold snow… to music

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~Bill of Rights Institute: Rule of Law (7:53) philosophy, history, rules, all in less than 8 minutes

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The United States has the world’s largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.
~John Delaney

I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You’ve got to remember that America has the best universities; it’s got some of the best businesses. It’s got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.
~Jamie Dimon

Eventually the dollar won’t always rule. Eventually there will be a challenge to the United States and it will have to be like other countries that are a bit concerned about their currency, and then have to ratchet back in order to ‒ right, in order to sustain. We just haven’t reached that point yet.
~Amity Shlaes

I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.
~Warren Buffett

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
~Warren Buffett

The criteria, the only rule you should follow ‒ the only rule ‒ is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
~E Joseph Cossman

Here’s the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That’s the true business precept.
~Charles Dickens

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In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.
~Sigmar Gabriel

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let’s mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.
~David J Schwartz

Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.
~Sallie Krawcheck

My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.
~Harvey Mackay

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.
~James Cash Penney

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
~Orison Swett Marden

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
~Henry Ford

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After Jessica Mitford published ‘The American Way of Death‘ in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of support for government intervention followed. Under President Ronald Reagan The Funeral Rule was first enacted to protect consumers from deceptive practices, but the rule has yet to put the nail in the coffin.
~Perianne Boring

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Substance over style is the rule for all resumes. Any special effects will dilute the gravitas and stature of the impression. You want people to concentrate on your accomplishments and your successes, not the curlicues of a font or unusual shades or contrast of colors.
~Debbie Millman

The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don’t, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
~Jonathan Sacks

The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.
~Anthea Turner

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don’t want to spend more time organizing than it’s worth.
~Daniel Levitin

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Housemaid is paid not for using her brain or head but for doing things as entrusted or said by the owner only; and the same rule applies to most of the people employed in the private corporate house.
~Anuj Somany

Employees who are fools often rule the roost in the private companies.
~Probaerb

The first rule to fuel and flourish the slavery at the workplace is to put the fool at the senior most post to make him enjoy life full and place the talents from school at his subordinates position and let him harass and humiliate them by making them work as asses and mules.
~Anuj Somany

At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.
~Matthew Stewart (The Management Myth)

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I do not understand why some would call me an economic oracle. Although I correctly forecasted key economic events in the past 10 years, the truth is that any economic forecasting model can become useless with the change of just one variable. And if we learned anything from experience, the only constant in markets is change. The first rule of economic forecasting is to understand that it is a science of probability not a science of certainty.
~Med Jones

There is no rule for market segmentation or market targeting. Do so in a way that makes sense for your environment. Do so in a manner that gives you the best information for your decision making needs.
~Thomas W Fraser

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So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.
~Epictetus

That’s what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There’s not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.
~Jose Altuve

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When the NBA first resorted to it in 1979, I must admit I thought it was a circus rule, the equivalent of asking players to be shot out of cannons or swallow swords, something borrowed from the stepchild ABA with its red, white and blue basketballs. A 3-point line? The beautiful game of basketball didn’t need a clown shot.
~Skip Bayless

I’m glad the NCAA is pushing back the 3-point line a foot. I’m a big supporter of the 3-point shot; it’s exciting. I hope the high schools adopt the same rule.
Morgan Wootten

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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
~Oscar Robertson

The Rooney Rule is intended to give minorities an opportunity to sit down in front of ownership, but I think what it’s turned into is an instance where guys are just checking the box. That’s been the case. I’ve been on some interviews in the past where I’ve had that feeling.
~Brian Flores (named after Dan Rooney of Pittsburg Steelers)

Like I always said, Carson Palmer got hit in his knee in 2005 but there was no rule made. Then Tom Brady got hit in his knee and all of a sudden there is a rule and possible suspensions, excessive fines ‒ it’s just getting ridiculous.
~Terrell Suggs

Football is an ever changing game and my team and I must adapt out game and play to fit all new rules and current rule change
~Thomas Christiansen (soccer)

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I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission ‒ say, of retired judges ‒ to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.
~Frank Deford

There is a simple rule in football. Whether it’s soccer or football, if you get a red card you can’t play the next match.
~Jesse Marsch

I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games ‒ a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.
~Lynn Davies

As a general rule, the more precious the chips you’d consider betting, the more you should lean toward playing it safe. Check it down; cautious play is usually the recipe for long-term success in poker.
~Daniel Negreanu

Obviously, the golden rule in surfing is ‘never underestimate the sea,’ but until it goes wrong, you can’t fathom it. You’re like, ‘I am insignificant in this body of water.’
~Sam Ryder

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.
~Lando Norris (motor sports)

My rule is to break one sweat a day.
~Matthew McConaughey

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Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.
~Chiwetel Ejiofor

For me, my rule in this industry is I’ve got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.
~Shailene Woodley

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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date ‘normal’ people because the Hollywood dating rule is ‘one star per couple’ because it’s quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
~Zach Galligan

That’s a rule in the business. No tongue. You can’t really get into it, otherwise, it’s weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
~Rachel Bilson (actor)

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
~Patricia Clarkson

The rule was, the kids in this agency had to do 15 commercials or something before they sent them out on a theatrical audition, for a television show. And I had only done two commercials.
~Justine Bateman

I have only one rule in acting ‒ trust the director and give him heart and soul.
~Ava Gardner

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There’s one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There’s a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.
~Derek Cianfrance

I’ve got a rule that I don’t ever try to hustle my filmmaking when I’m in the room as an actor, because I want to do it off my own back. I don’t want to be given leg ups. I want to graft for it. I want it to be organic.
~Harris Dickinson (actor/director)

I like where we’re going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don’t like it. This isn’t the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.
~Neill Blomkamp (SAfr/Can Dir)

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Every villain in the DC Universe wants something different, and not all of them want to rule the world. Or at least, not all of them want to rule the world in the way the Crime Syndicate do.
~Geoff Johns (Green Lantern, Aquaman, The Flash, Superman)

I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I’ve always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla’s role in Tokyo, where he’s always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again ‒ wouldn’t Godzilla become God? It would be called ‘Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.’
~Quentin Tarantino

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
~Paul Thomas Anderson (director/screenwriter)

I’ve seen ‘Super Troopers‘ too many times, and there’s a house rule that we’re not allowed to watch ‘Beerfest‘ again.
~Isaac Brock

It’s almost like a genre rule: Don’t Open The Box.
~Joel Coen

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Here’s the rule that I set for myself, and I believe it ‒ even on a show like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm‘: the more personal you are, the wider your audience.
~David Steinberg

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~Omeleto: I Don’t Make The Rules (12:43) …that need bending

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~Omeleto: Long Time Listener, First Time Caller (17:22) a becoming

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~Zealous Creative: The Maker (5:30) realization of story’s beauty comes late

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The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.
~Jordan Peele

The simple rule I will follow to sustain in the industry would be to adapt to these ongoing changes and be a versatile artiste.
~Armaan Malik (Ind playback singer/songwriter)

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A simple and effective rule to not make fool of oneself is not to react and share own views on any online hashtag trending & buzzing TV news and more so when it is being supported & commented by people in numbers huge
– Anuj Somany

As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post ‒ then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
~M J Rose

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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
~Fra Angelico (Dominican friar/painter, 1395-1455)

When you’re learning how to do magic, the first rule is ‘never reveal a secret.’ In a way, by telling someone I’m a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all… How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.
~Michael Carbonaro

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
~Antoine de Rivarol

I live surrounded by threats. I must stay alert. I am a law-abiding citizen; have never broken any rule while driving. But if someone clicks a photo or shoots a video, I have to be suspicious of their intentions.
~Ravish Kumar (Indian journalist)

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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
~Emil Cioran

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized.
~Charles Jencks

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As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.
~Jenny Eclair

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath ‒ tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
~William Hazlitt

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I’m not a people person. I’m not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.
~John Simm (actor)

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.
~Rhys Ifans

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.
~Terry Crews

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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don’t see how I can ever trust any human being again.
~Ulysses S Grant (Ferdinand Ward Ponzi scheme)

I’ve always been interested in local politics. I never rule anything out, but I have a very full life right now, with a very young daughter. I have a lot that I want to do still with my career… I can’t imagine that would be a possibility for a long time.
~Scarlett Johansson

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You can’t have an ego when you’re a team. One person can’t really rule the roost.
~Kim Shattuck (of The Muffs)

A lot of people have ideas and opinions on what Avenged Sevenfold should be or what we should do, and I think our No. 1 rule is to always make sure we never listen to any of that and to always do what we believe.
~Zacky Vengeance

I’d write songs like ‘One Big Holiday,’ and we’d play it and say, ‘It’s too heavy for ‘At Dawn.’ Let’s save it for the next one.’ We had more time for that, but when you mix a song, the general rule of thumb for us is a song a day or usually a day and a half.
~Jim James (of My Morning Jacket)

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was… Well, we didn’t have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we’re working.
~Lee Hazlewood (country songster)

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
~Julie Andrews

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In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.
~James Fenton

There’s no rules. Show me the rule book.
~Liam Gallagher (songwriter, of Oasis)

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~Dua Lipa: New Rules (3:44) ostensibly about a boy

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~Tears For Fears: Everybody Wants To Rule The World (4:11) out and about and in concert

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Ensaligblandning: Tina Turner • Break Every Rule (4:28) big hair, big talent, audience big part of the show

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~Joshua Smith: Black Sabbath • The Mob Rules (3:22) very heavy metal

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JRE 2: Shakira • Rules (3:56) early, before the polish

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~robert schwan: Golden Rule (5:25) quasi-religious/social justice

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~TBJentertainment: Bon Jovi • Love Is The Only Rule (8:16) rousing

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I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
~Anthony Trollope

In the digital age, there is a new rule book for romance.
~Adwoa Aboah

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
~Bruce Jay Friedman

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The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you’re nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife.
~Jim Parrack

To keep the fire burning brightly, there’s one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart ‒ about a finger’s breadth ‒ for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
~Marnie Reed Crowell

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Every married lady wants to be treated like a queen, so she has to often wage a cold war against her mother-in-law and, at times, an open conflict to make a way to gain the crown and retain the highest position; in this pursuit, a woman loves to have no resistance or opposition from any quarter and, therefore, likes only a man who remains as an inactive king in the house. Unsurprisingly in this home battle, all arms and combat training to make her rule and reign supreme are often provided by her mother only.
~Anuj Somany (in marketing)

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque [mutual] or with an inward and secret contempt.
~Francis Bacon

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But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn’t allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?
~Ken Mehlman

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I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band ‘Be kind to one another.’ This is the Golden Rule of Marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.
~Randolph Ray

Love is a golden rule i.e. it is a basic principle which should always be kept/followed through & up by you/one & all.
~Emeasoba George

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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
~Elizabeth Gaskell

There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
~Kate Middleton

My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like ‒ strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.
~Ty Segall

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.
~Rita Ora (singer/songwriter, Brit)

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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
~Albert Camus

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
~Patricia Ireland

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.
~Russell M Nelson

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I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won’t go away from home for more than two weeks.
~Andrea Bocelli (tenor soloist)

My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man’s house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.
~Thurgood Marshall (USSC AJ)

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
~Ernest Hemingway (writer)

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The memories I can gather now of my parents are quite contradicting. My mother was the disciplinarian and my dad was the rule breaker.
~Sanam Saeed

I’m raising three children. I’m teaching my kids what it means, the Golden Rule, to treat people like you want to be treated.
~Andrew Gillum (ex-FL pol)

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Who would have known? I was walking in a mall and between the crowd of shoppers shoving around and wandering about their business my eyes meet a familiar face. A face I haven’t seen in years. Our gazes meet. We stare for mere seconds before the both of us look away pretending one hadn’t seen the other and we quickly disappear into our now separate lives. But when I went home, I still had the Best Friends necklace you gave me in Elementary and the Senior ring we had in high school , stuffed in some drawer beneath clothes and books gathering dust as the years rolled by. I still have that photo album that starts with our picture as little girls dressing up as princesses to the day we held certificates with our gowns on. All through that journey we had been hand in hand from our first day of school to our first fight to prom night. From skipping class to plotting against teachers to every crush we had. Every exam we failed and every rule we broke. The times we sat together in detention and the times we never bothered showing up. All the hard times we pushed through and all the success we celebrated. Every fire alarm, birthday candle and breakup. We’ve been with each other through all and more until the day college split us apart. Your texts became shorter and your calls became rare. And I wonder how brutal graduation was for ripping us apart like that. Yesterday inseparable sisters, today a stranger.
~Extended internet meme, author unknown

I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, ‘I love X, but… ‘ more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.
~Sloane Crosley

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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On campuses, where Liberal softies still rule with an iron fist, feminism is as safe as a city with no women drivers. That is the only thing I support about Saudi Arabia, by the way.
~Milo Yiannopoulos (Brit)

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
~John Calvin

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
~Carl Jung

If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
~D H Lawrence

Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
~Mary Daly

There’s a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.
~Mary Beard

I am the ocean, and I rule the world (the whole world) I’m sensual, I am body beautiful (the body’s beautiful) I am the one (the only one), there is no other I am mother, I am body beautiful (I am body beautiful)
~Salt-N-Peppa (I Am The Body Beautiful)

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If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
~Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643, Massachusetts Bay Colony feminist)

In 1861, Bach often published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under the rule of womankind and only switched to patriarchy at the dawn of civilization.
~Amanda Foreman

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
~Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I grew up in a household where there were really, really strong matriarchal characters. I think that’s true of many Asian households. People tend to think of Asia as a misogynistic society or a society where men rule. At least in my experience, the women rule the household; the women rule the social scene. The men often become very useless.
~Kevin Kwan

A woman wants to rule like a queen by involving herself in all activities of the house… It looks to the many that a woman is a multitasking person but the fact is that she does everything to keep all under her control to rule like a queen and let the man remain the meek mouse of the house.
~Anuj Somany

The intensity of intention inside a woman’s mind to reign like a queen is so pronounced that she even intrudes and invades own daughters’ house to rule.
~Anuj Somany

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If a woman is successful, then she’s deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we’re all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn’t seem to me to have changed an iota.
~Glenda Jackson

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
~Ursula K Le Guin

T.R. “Tina” Threston is one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting and calling friend. There are many beautiful women in the world, but, most of the beauty is skin deep. Tina is the exception to this rule ‒ her beauty radiates from within from her intellect to her compassion for others, and, she is a true physical beauty ‒ very pleasing to the eye. She is a rare gem in today’s society. Any man lucky enough to capture her heart should hold on tight and not let go.
~Wellington Harris (Mr Harris, voiceover narrator :: Ms Threston, publisher)

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
~Amy Vanderbilt

The t-shirts that declare ‘Girls Rule the World’ offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.
~Faith Salie

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Altered But Unblinking

Harvested from the Net
Someone take a bow

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The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.
~David Fisher (Conversations with My Cat)

Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.
~Craig Brown

If I ran a national burger franchise ‒ which I don’t ‒ I’d make it a rule that no two customers can be greeted with precisely the same words and that every third customer must be grossly insulted as a matter of course. Just to keep the atmosphere nice and lively. And to keep the staff laughing.
~Charlie Brooker (Brit satirical TV)

Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can’t have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
~Ari Graynor

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.
~Bill Bryson

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Not mine, but a personal observation and testament
Harvested from the Net – Someone take a bow

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Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
~Byllye Avery.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
~Loretta Young (actor)

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I believe in the Golden Rule ‒ The Man with the Gold… Rules.
~Mr T

Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
~Alan Alda

Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that’s close to your heart. And I think that that’s very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.
~Kumar Mangalam Birla

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
~George Bernard Shaw

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if ‘do unto others’ really was a rule.
~Gary Hamel

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
~Edwin Markham

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To me, it’s about the Golden Rule, really at the end of the day. Treating people as you want to be treated. I just don’t feel like it’s that hard to do. It’s not that much to ask of someone to treat everyone with the respect they would want to be treated with. No matter what you look like or where you’re from.
~Chase Elliott

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that’s all I care about.
~Rob Reiner

It’s how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn’t anything better than the golden rule. It’s in every major religion in one language or another.
~Art Linkletter

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I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That’s kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.
~Matt LeBlanc

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Right is right even if no one is doing it and Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. This saying is proven right by maskless Delhi duo when they said rightly that whole world has been fooled by corona protocol and lockdown rule.
~Rameshh Shanegar

Lots of people were already wearing many masks hiding their real face and now a rule asks them to wear one more.
~Anuj Somany

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Merely lifting the unlawful ban and allowing all unvaccinated men to visit public spaces & board on train, bus or tram is not justice, unless and until those implemented this unwarranted travelling rule & atrocious going clause and caused pain to poor people & commuters are punished under laws
~Anuj Somany

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The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman’s belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.
~Sigmund Freud

Sepsis is a difficult thing to diagnose and one’s default really should be to rule it out first. Sepsis should be at the top of everyone’s list.
~Jason Watkins

When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
~Maimonides

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The rule of thumb is, if you feel chest pains, chew on an aspirin to thin the blood rapidly.
~Steven Gundry

It’s been known since 1916 that cutting back calories is beneficial in every organism it’s been tested on ‒ from yeast to worms to mice to monkeys. I think it would be a surprise if we are an exception to that rule.
~David Andrew Sinclair

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@Writers Platform:

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
~George Ade (writer)

I have nothing to do with wealth and weapons, which lead towards the destruction of good, but defeat is its destiny. I am gifted the power of the pen; my rule and role is love, and I reside in the hearts of the people where God exists, and that is mine and your peaceful world.
~Ehsan Sehgal (Dutch poet/journalist)

People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise.
~Erica Olsen Firment

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Myths rule the world.
~Gavriil Stiharul

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
~Joseph Brodsky

A man has much to teach himself that he will never learn until he sits down to write. This serves a prime rule for grade-school level wisdom.
~Ed Note

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.
~Debasish Mridha, MD

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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
~Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

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In words as fashions the same rule will hold,
Alike fantastic if too new or old
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
~Alexander Pope

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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
~Walter Scott

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And the rule I gave myself was that I had to invent at least one thing new every day and also read a book everyday. For many years now that has been my fixed rule.
~Oberto Airaudi (Italian new age founder of Damanhur)

As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don’t think readers care. I also feel that it just about guarantees that somebody else will be writing a book on the same subject, but being a former journalist, I’m always interested in, like, why write about something today? Why do it now?
~Erik Larson

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
~J R R Tolkien

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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
~Confucius

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

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The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women ‘Aunties’ rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren’t entirely shut out from this system ‒ in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government ‒ but it’s strictly delimited.
~Alaya Dawn Johnson (matriarchal society in The Summer Prince)

Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to ‘Harry Potter‘ because it’s like lightning in a bottle.
~Cassandra Clare

Of course, there are those critics ‒ New York critics as a rule ‒ who say, ‘Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.’ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
~Maya Angelou

Here’s my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there’s this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
~Carl Hiaasen

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‘The Merchant of Venice‘ is a straightforward, clear story, while ‘The Winter’s Tale,’ as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.
~Jesse L Martin

It’s so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman’s story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.
~Nathan Englander

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Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn’t know the way it’s going to come out, and at times, he is very surprised by the way it turns out, since often it turns out better than he expected; often his thought carries further than he reckoned.
~Joseph Brodsky

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
~Anne Tyler

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The Occasional Corner

Altered Eagle: The pResident sPeaks

They’re griping because I make great money, good business decisions, and they’re paying higher grocery bills? That ‘let them eat eat cake’ is crazy talk, makes no sense. They got chicken, and they love pizza. Let ’em eat pizza!
~D T Rump

Love is lived by the inch if it is to endure… What kind of bullcrap is that? You saying the people don’t love me anymore? Who’s rule book you been reading, dumby? I’m the one got elected, didn’t I?
~T Rumpledthinskin

‘Disowned… man without a country… a country without his name?’ You think that’s how history will do me, and you think that’s funny? I am pResident of these united… this here country, and I make up the rules here. And you, just graduating high school, maybe…? probably not… flunked history is my guess; you should just shut up, make yourself go away.
~D T Rump

They claim I got no choice? The rules were rote, the stage set disaster wise, and the script ‘writ’ milleniums ago… and I’m the bad guy? I’m the biggest of the worst bad guys? I’m the fated, bred from the beginning, raised from history, the full of ego, greed, hatred, and lies guy that ignites the planet? well that’s just ₿ʊ₤ḸՖ♯¡╦ straight from a horse’s ǡƾƾ. They’ll be hearing from me. You tell ’em I said so.
~St Rumpet

Hardware inventory, war crimes, cost overruns? Hell, they’re just natural casualties of war. Convicted felons or not, this administration is not criminal, and we are not incompetent amateurs. We have plans, made rule changes for better outcomes is all. Not my fault that country doesn’t know when to quit… especially when attacked by a superior, a far, far superior force.
~D T Rump

Why are trumped-up charges not used by my justice department? Because it would be disrespectful is why. Plus we don’t need to. We just rewrite the rules.
~D T Rump

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If you’re calling yourself a maverick and you’re not Dirk Nowitzki [NBA], then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a ‘God-fearing Christian’ or a ‘Man of the people.’
~Adam McKay (filmmaker)

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
~Victor Hugo

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful.
~Kahlil Gibran

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Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God’s love commits me here Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide.
~Catholic Prayer

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
~Ellen G White

Charity is certainly greater than any rule.
~Saint Vincent de Paul

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God can rule over good, but the devil is associated with being the ruler of evil.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

God is not in competition with the devil. He is God over all, or he is not God. His plan for raising humanity from sin into wisdom is more grand than you can imagine. Unsurprisingly, God’s plan rules.
~Peter Biggstones

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
~Ronald Reagan

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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
~David Novak

Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one ‘from love.’ Love is to rule.
~Max Stirner

I don’t believe in the war god of the Israelites. He’s a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.
~Terry Pratchett

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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
~Sabine Baring-Gould

The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend.
~Dave Brat

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If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live, and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.
~Max Heindel

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.
~Charles Spurgeon

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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
~Rene Descartes

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.
Leonhard Euler

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Genes rule the world.
~Link Starbureiy

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
~William James

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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
~Elisha Gray (lost the great patent race with Alexander Graham Bell)

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
~Albert Einstein

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The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.
~Giambattista Vico

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One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.
~James Gunn

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
~Sallust (Roman historian)

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The first rule of new media is nobody gets rich, but everybody gets paid, in a perfect world. Maybe you don’t get fabulously wealthy doing your webcomic, but as long as you can make a decent living.
~Mark Waid

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I’m accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
~Bryan Burrough

I realized that that Golden Rule does not exist online. You are not held to that same standard as when there is a teacher in the room or someone monitoring behavior.
~Whitney Wolfe Herd

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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
~Bill Gates

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
~Dave Parnas

A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity.
~Ellen Ullman

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Those who rule data will rule the entire world.
~Masayoshi Son

Any ‘network neutrality’ rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.
~Marvin Ammori

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies’ stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.
~David Coleman

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For a while, I had a rule of no smartphone in bed, but now I’ve upgraded to no smartphone in the bedroom. The fact that we need rules shows how much these things have invaded our lives.
~John Lanchester

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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
~John Locke

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
~Matt Blunt

There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
~Adam Cohen

[For student loan debt] a general rule of thumb is to take out no more than the expected yearly salary of the college major
~Dejan Ilijevski

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§ The Exercise:

ditty #811

tho the blind might have guessed
at an unbidden, sight-hidden
unbiased host
while the rest of us
stunned and aghast
or divinely obsessed
at thoughts of a ghost
have the short-time, no-rhyme
claim on us, as guest
a timely reminding
reissued new rule
restating the basic
classic old school:
to coast or to boast
think twice at this choice
your quest for the most

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forlorn ditty #11

lost in the woods, getting out
lost among words, finding out
squandered chances
scorned and cursed
mendicant old stray
stopped and immersed
got lost in his work
poor poet put play
nonsense into verse

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pick a dilly squared

the craven craving attention
attractions of a menacing maven
a grandly imperial bastion
a bastard rule much beyond question
infractions with barely a mention
favors rescinding our haven
interactions suggesting invasion
all ruled unhealthy refusing digestion

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dim sum

rule of thumb
has a b in it
not a floral bee
or of a b_ing, human kind
‘cuz there’s no b in dim, u c
does seem kind of dumb to me

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the rule of rules

all is known
all will be told
and all that’s false
first and foremost
anti & opposite
ruled invalid
not aligned
the golden rule

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5s ‘n 7s

me see birdie in the sky
me not stop to wonder why
why they flyin’ high ‘n dry
when below is wet and fine
tho will admit it’s in decline
vulgar taste, or choose refined
lose the way, old ways remind

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anatomy of a rule
allegory of the eyes
algorithms of belief always advertising self
stranded, ever on the run

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desire: thin wire used
to communicate
and for garroting
all best intentions,
under test as a rule

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density of destiny
fate pondering what’s to be
left wondering why would she
stand beside but not agree
old love’s worn out loyalty

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fire in the mountains
fierce reds frame for a sunset
first of the season
where animals and trees died
where woods once ruled, they did try

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like old memories
reporters rule twice removed
youth and truth are gone

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently ‒ they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
~Steve Jobs

Hell, there are no rules here‒ we’re trying to accomplish something.
~Thomas A Edison

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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
~Umberto Eco

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
~Soren Kierkegaard

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You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
~will.i.am

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
~Benjamin Disraeli

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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.
~Katherine Mansfield

If you can dance and be free and not be embarrassed, you can rule the world.
~Amy Poehler

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I have one rule‒attention. They give me theirs and I give them mine.
~Sister Evangelist

There is only one rule for being a good talker ‒ learn to listen.
~Christopher Morley

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He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.
~German proverb

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
~Joseph Conrad

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
~Agnes Repplier

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The eagle may rule the sky, but the lion will always rule the jungle.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
~Phil Knight

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Don’t let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
~Tammy Faye Bakker

I should rather labor as another’s serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
~Homer

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The rule is. There are no rules
~Aristotle Onassis

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
~Henry David Thoreau

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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
~Carl Hiaasen

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‘If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.’ But if it’s open and you’re walkin’ by, feel free to say, ‘Hello.’
~Matthew McConaughey

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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
~Jimmy Breslin

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
~Arthur Conan Doyle

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It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man’s progress in time and in space.
~Max Heindel

You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.
~Jane Roberts

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It’s my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
~Sean O’Casey (dramatist, Irish)

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
~Mark Twain

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
~John Locke

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It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often would be called an historian. Similarly, one to whom reality doesn’t seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher.
~Joseph Brodsky

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim ‘never say never’ is one of the most important in ethics.
~Julian Baggini (Philosopher/journalist)

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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ~Aaron Burr (VP to Thomas Jefferson, killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel)

Work while you work, play while you play ‒ this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
~Theodor W Adorno

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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
~Mary McCarthy

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
~Denis Waitley

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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
~P G Wodehouse

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
~Thomas Szasz

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The first rule of discounts: If you didn’t need it before it was on sale, you probably don’t need it now.
~Vikrant Parsai

Both truth and falsity rule the world. Falsity by virtue of numbers and truth by virtue of control.
~Goa Kerle

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The world can only be limitless and boundless if you let it control yourself and rule over you.
~Clifford Villanueva Villalon

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
~Diogenes

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas… that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
~Michel Foucault

The first rule of learning philosophy is to ban the hypothesis of knowing anything. You must go beyond your own opinions.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

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What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once ‒ not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn’t.
~Simon McBurney (actor/playwright)

Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.
~Sir Thomas More

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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity
~Eric Hoffer

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
~Alan Bennett

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While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense… these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job ‒ he’s got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.
~Richard Milhous Nixon

I don’t go by the rule book — I lead from the heart, not the head.
~Diana, Princess of Wales

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I go by the 80-20 rule. So, 80 percent of the time, I’m eating healthy and focused on the right foods ‒ fruits, vegetables, all the good stuff. Then there is 20 percent of the time where you can sneak in some of the other foods, like a steak. That’s not to say that a steak is bad.
~Donovan Mitchell

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
~Wayne Dyer

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Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.
~Ryszard Kapuściński

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
~Julius Caesar (in De Bello Gallico)

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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
~Julia Cameron

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
~Thomas Carlyle

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Only two dictatorships in whatever form and system rule around the world; one of the voters’ selection and choice as a majority, another by the consensus of a few ones who dress in uniform, carrying weapons. The public stays the self-victimizing of both powers.
~Ehsan Sehgal

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
~Bertrand Russell

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These wealthy people want to rule and control every aspect of human life on Earth as well in the universe.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly…I think‒ Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Your infinity number is the age you were at conception to the age you were at soul gift to the age you die. However you are one of many incarnations so you must add all these numbers to reach your full infinity asensuion number. If you know your asensuion number you can use it to rule your universe. Wjen you have this universe you must then understand it before going further on your spiritual journey. Then you will be given glimpses of other u-universes. These are not mistypes.
~Heather Lydia Thornhill

Even though the imagination may seem to rule the world, reality or manifestation is always the final judge.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

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Despite the debt, the traffic, the one-party rule, the taxes, and the eagerness of politicians to overwhelm small businesses and large corporate job producers with red tape and unnecessary regulations, the Golden State is still the most beautiful place to live and work in the United States.
~Richard Grenell

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
~Henry Adams

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A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all ‒ that is myself.
~Marcus Aurelius

Life’s first rule is very simple, be what you are. The way to this is the truth and this is the way to life.
~Goa Kerle

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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
~Margaret Oliphant

It is much easier to break the rules when one is surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.
~Monica Fairview

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If you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as Do it yourself project.
~Abhishek Shukla

Rule three hundred of obscure leadership. If it’s your idea, you get to implement it.
~Leland Exton Modesitt, Jr

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I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
~Terence

You can’t make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it’s like putting your wedding pictures in ‘In Style‘ magazine ‒ you’re divorced.
~Frances McDormand

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