Rule Quotes
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The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.
Adrian Bejan
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I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.
Niki Taylor
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Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time.
Oprah Winfrey
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There has to be pain. That's the rule.
Haruki Murakami
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Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.
Thomas Carlyle
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As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.
Eugene Kennedy
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I set myself a rule before I actually write a tune to the lyrics, and the rule is that I've got to take the lyrics on to a level of understanding before I can actually write music to them. What I'm doing is interpretation. If I don't write the lyrics, therefore I must interpret them to the best of my ability. So my rule is that I must understand it, but I don't necessarily have to accept.
James Dean Bradfield Manic Street Preachers
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The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them.
George W. Plunkitt
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The golden rule is, to help those we love to escape from us.
F. Huegel
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What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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But he (Franklin Roosevelt) specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters and who'd believed in him and resides that he is just shockingly abandoned the right of the people to rule. It's a pretty horrible story in that respect.
Geoffrey Cowan
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
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The third-date rule that you need to have sex by the third date treats sex like it's the down payment on a relationship.
Jason Paul "J" Brown Five
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In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
Rene Descartes
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Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
Steve Jobs
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There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.
Brenda Shoshanna
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It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.
John Ruskin
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I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
Nikolai II Aleksandrovich
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The rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
Hannah Arendt
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
Charles Dickens