Rules Quotes
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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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I think actually it's kind of sad because something I looked forward to just getting to the NFL growing up was just being able to have more fun, the rules loosen up, being able to celebrate.
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The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the rules of the game and on the assetts of the players: it is a very important and widely neglected truth that it does not depend on the rules of the game alone.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
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Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
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To me, the rules are made for guys to score more. And I guess that's where the entertainment comes in.
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Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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I am quite Pan-like in my naïve confidence that he will play by the rules and keep his word.
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I used to always pull my jersey out of my pants. Earl Tatum was like that, too. I was just more comfortable. There were no rules then. They didn't make you tuck your jerseys in and it was just comfortable for me.
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The Universe is a quantum computer, and over time, it is simply more likely that structure comes out of it than noise. That means rules, patterns. That means a game. But spend long enough poking at it, and you start to see the game engine, the labyrinth of the quantum circuit, wires looping around each other, forwards and backwards.
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Human beings will never evolve to higher creatures if we are constantly restricted by rules and regulations.
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A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.
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That was against the rules. We grew up in a bubble. We hardly heard music other than what we heard in church. Occasionally we'd get to listen to oldies. That was considered wholesome, I guess.
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
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You want to invent new ideas, not rules
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The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
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The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
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A lot of that criticism stems from jealousy, don’t you agree? People have a hard time accepting someone who soars so high. Someone who dares to break all the rules.
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We have to be careful about creating more rules.
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The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
