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"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: authority, conformity, fool, foolishness, rule, rules

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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
— Frank Herbert

tags: action, frank, government, herbert, improve, life, lives, power, rule, ruling

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"You too can rule the world. You just have to crush everyone else first."
— With Honors Guy

tags: alchemist, crush, fma, full, guy, honors, humor, metal, people, random, rule, with, world

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"Baby, I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time"
— Ja Rule

tags: ashanti, fidelity, ja, love, rule

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"Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination."
— Marcel Duchamp

tags: golden, rule

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"The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."

Inaugural address 1789"
— George Washington

tags: america, heaven, nation, order, rule, rules

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"When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable."
— Émile Durkheim

tags: law, rule

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"The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience)

tags: rule

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"The life we share is a thug affair."
— Ja Rule

tags: ashanti, hip, hop, ja, love, rule

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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. "
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: bernard, george, golden, moral, others, rule, same, shaw, taste, unto

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