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

Samuel Butler
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I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.

Jim Clark
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The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move. -Frank Crane
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Be prepared, be sharp, be careful, and use the King's English well. And you can forget all the [other rules] unless you remember one more: Get paid.

Robert N. C. Nix
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The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

Whitey Herzog
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It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. -Mark Twain
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Douglas Bader
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw
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You are remembered for the rules you break. -General Douglas MacArthur
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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung
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I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely inorder to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained. -George Washington
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Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca
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You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

Matt Groening
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Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed. -Benjamin Franklin
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I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you'.

Douglas Adams
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. -G. K. Chesterton
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Hell, there are no rules here- we're trying to accomplish something.

Thomas A. Edison
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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Leo Durocher
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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
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There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Milton Friedman
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There are so many outrageous things that have gone on in the context of the Enron debacle that the ordinary rules of logic don't seem to apply.

Mike Florio
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Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right of way. -Matt Armstrong
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We've been totally open about all this. We've really followed the rules here, and it's senseless why they should target us.

Beth Moore
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The IFA seem to change the rules to suit themselves. I am not happy about this decision.

Paul Kirk
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At a private gift exchange ceremony, one journalist broke all ground rules, behaved rudely, and was escorted out of the private meeting. -Helaine Klasky
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We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

James Calvin
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We have to start with the basic rules. There has to be zero tolerance.

Alfredo Hernandez
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. -Samuel Johnson
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