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Rules Quotes by Steven Pinker
- When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
- The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
- One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at…
More Rules Quotes
- 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