“Any rules that are made for everybody hurt somebody, sometimes.” — Kathleen Norris, Little Ships
Tag: rules
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”When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.“ — Michael Parenti, Democracy for the Few
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“You have to know the rules before you break them.” — Billy Wilder, “The Art of Screenwriting No. 1,” the Paris Review (Spring 1996)
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“Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense.” — David Thorne, The Internet is a Playground
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“Disfranchisement — I use the word in the largest sense, and not merely as applying to votes — follows inevitably upon the creation of many rules and regulations for the gaining of the franchise in question.” — Arthur Helps, Brevia
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“Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules.” — Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
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“A game without rules is war.” — John Fowles, The Aristos
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“There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.” — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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“More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.” — Hyman G. Rickover, Address delivered to US Naval Post Graduate School(1954-03-16)
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“Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt.” — Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune