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		In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bernard Madoff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Victor Hugo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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 many ways to relax a problem, and we’ve seen three of the most important. The first, Constraint Relaxation, simply removes some constraints altogether and makes progress on a looser form of the problem before coming back to reality. The second, Continuous Relaxation, turns discrete or binary choices into continua: when deciding between iced tea and lemonade, first imagine a 50–50 “Arnold Palmer” blend and then round it up or down. The third, Lagrangian Relaxation, turns impossibilities into mere penalties, teaching the art of bending the rules..
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Christian
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The NCAA has its rules. It's our job to abide by them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ezekiel Elliott
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For, among the world's incertitudes, this thing called arithmetic is established by a sure reasoning that we comprehend as we do the heavenly bodies. It is an intelligible pattern, a beautiful system, that both binds the heavens and preserves the earth. For is there anything that lacks measure, or transcends weight? It includes all, it rules all, and all things have their beauty because they are perceived under its standard.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cassiodorus
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		You've got to know the rules to break them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexander McQueen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jarvis Cocker
			
			
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		The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama, Sr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ernest Shackleton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sometimes it’s not how much light you use to get an effect, it’s how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you’ve got to have courage.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Wong Howe