Rules Quotes
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Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.
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Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.
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To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
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Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
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If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.
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Trauma causes people to remain stuck in interpreting the present in light of an unchanging past. The scene you re-create in a structure may or may not be precisely what happened, but it represents the structure of your inner world: your internal map and the hidden rules that you have been living by.
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We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.
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The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.
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I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
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...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules, except in effect just to watch and see how they unfold.
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The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.
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I will not live by rules that make no sense to me.
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I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.
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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
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These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.
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I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.
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Systemicity is imposed as a set of rules binding the parts among themselves. But these rules do not constrain the parts to act in one way and one way only; they merely prescribe that certain types of functions are carried out in certain sequences. The parts have options; as long as a sufficient number of sufficiently qualified units carry out the prescribed tasks, the requirements of systemic determination are met.
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Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.
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Driver had his own rules of war, and he tried to teach them to me. You know, when you clean a weapon the first rule is always clear the chamber. Not Driver. His first rule was always check to make sure it’s your weapon, so you don’t end up cleaning somebody else’s weapon.
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Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.
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Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
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I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.
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There are two rules in politics. They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand, and never swear.
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And why was it that some guys had tears in them and some had no tears at all? Different boys lived by different rules.
