Rules Quotes

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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… — Ezra Pound
Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live… — Rajneesh
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is… — Rajneesh
The more you become a part of society, the less and less you are an individual, the less and less you are spontaneous - because… — Rajneesh
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their… — Hugh Nibley
What you have to do is break all the rules. — Andrew Wyeth
The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these… — Thomas Reid
As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient… — Tammy Bruce
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for… — Shana Alexander
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton
Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to… — David McCullough
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. — P.J. O'Rourke
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely… — Isaac Newton
He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God… — Isaac Newton
In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition… — Benoit Mandelbrot

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