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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt demo...

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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

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Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its ru...

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There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.

In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happ...

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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in t...

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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...

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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the...

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One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot ...

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The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost - like, aside from...

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And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, ...

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Once the state starts providing, it feels free to hand out the rules, too!" Larch blurted hastily. ....

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To dream in doctrines, how tidy!

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquet...

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In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we ...

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The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like th...

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I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goo...

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Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward...

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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.

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Libba BrayBeauty Queens

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaiti...

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There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to ...

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...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority hav...

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Malcolm GladwellDavid and Goliath: Underdogs

The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these ...

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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether...

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Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...

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Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impuni...

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permit...

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Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up th...

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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly p...

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Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but al...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a...

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It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of...

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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,...

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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy th...

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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not ...

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Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are...

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Neil GaimanThe Sandman: Book of Dreams

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

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Niall FergusonCivilization: The West and the Rest

One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he wo...

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We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however ric...

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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...

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In the world of mulesThere are no rules.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has s...

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Richard DawkinsScience in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find th...

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As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never...

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What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could beg...

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If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and ot...

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War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of ...

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In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”“How do you win?” he a...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from rea...

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You meet me after school right here", I said."Why?" he asked.I couldn't believe he was so stupid."Be...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know a...

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I am not really breaking any rules. Charlie said I could never take another step through the door ag...

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Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: ...

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The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have...

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It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to...

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When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; ...

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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guideli...

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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same st...

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Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never trans...

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So, to sum up my room-clearing generalizations, men are in comedy to break rules.

What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of stan...

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U. G. KrishnamurtiThe Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very muc...

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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist...

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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, m...

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Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refus...

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Virginia WoolfThe Death of the Moth and Other Essays

I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No...

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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...

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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got." (Spoken at a...

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Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ...

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I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...

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The field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and et...

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Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and butt...

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