Rule Quotes
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To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. “—I sometimes doubt if he’s human,” said Will, speaking his thought aloud. “It’s probably all done with wheels.
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Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.
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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.
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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
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Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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I do go to football sometimes but I don't know the offside rule or free-kicks - or side kicks - or whatever they're called.
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Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.
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Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
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The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.
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I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.
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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.
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Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
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As a general rule, the variety of life is most impoverished at the poles and richest at low latitudes.
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Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
