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Rules Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep…
- Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed…
- The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what… — Francis Bacon
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue… — William J. Clinton
- "There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win. — Vince Lombardi
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning… — Thomas Jefferson