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Rules Quotes
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
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"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules."
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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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"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."
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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 trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game."
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"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."
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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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"I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing."
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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."
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"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
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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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"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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"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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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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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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"I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?"
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"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules."
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"To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules."
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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 story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."
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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 feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."
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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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"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."
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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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"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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"There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once."
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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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"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."
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"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
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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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