Rules Quotes

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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken… — Albert Camus
We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules. — Paulo Coelho
What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the… — Rajneesh
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods. — Ovid
Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion. — Slash
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. — William Penn
Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a… — Fred Rogers
It is the law of love that rules mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
It would be naÃ¯ve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve… — Jimmy Carter
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel… — Robert Graves
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if… — Bruce Schneier
In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed. — Garry Kasparov
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular… — William James
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is… — Richard P. Feynman
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Tim Ferriss
Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and… — Brother Lawrence
Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii. — Michael Martin Hammer
The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by… — Andy Grove
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. — Mike Krzyzewski
As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules. — Mary Oliver

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