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Rules Quotes
"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules."
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"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
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"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."
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"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
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"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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"I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too."
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"California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there."
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"It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers."
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"The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about."
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"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
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"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
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"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game."
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"Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."
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"I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?"
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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."
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"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules."
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"Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules."
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"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
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"To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules."
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"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."
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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
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"I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing."
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"That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things."
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"I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me."
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"I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."
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"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."
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"We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus."
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"The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?"
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"In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will."
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"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
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"You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing."
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"There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once."
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"I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em."
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