Rules Quotes
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The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.
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Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
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Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
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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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If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.
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When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
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League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
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The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.
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The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.
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It's fun to play somebody who has no boundaries or rules. There's no book you can read on how to play a witch, so you just create a version. It's really great!
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... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
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5 rules to live a happier life: 1) Love yourself. 2) Do good. 3) Always forgive. 4) Harm no one. 5) Be positive.
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He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.
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Look at all the women in my stories. They’re very independent; they create their own universes; they are very unorthodox. They aren’t held down by rules and regulations.
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We're not attempting to circumcise rules.
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Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules.
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One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
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But the longer I’m dead, the more I think the universe is a big blackboard with rules scrawled all over it in chalk and stardust and it’s just that the damn thing is flipped over and turned away from us so we can’t see anything but the erase, which death, hitting the floor.
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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
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I wouldn't call it a controversy. I'd call it some questions being asked: 'Do we have the best rules?
