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Ruled Quotes (page 64)

I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell. Ray Bradbury
Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. H. L. Mencken
Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister. George R. R. Martin
Harper Lee quote: "The one thing that doesn't abide majority rule is a person's..."
The one thing that doesn't abide majority rule is a person's conscience. Harper Lee
Your mind is likewise blocked. But the right road awaits you still. Cast out your doubts, your fears and your desires, let go of grief and of hope as well, for where these rule the mind is their subject. Boethius
Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case. Paul Brunton
Jodi Picoult quote: "What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be,..."
What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken. Jodi Picoult
Philip Pullman quote: "Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic..."
Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing. Philip Pullman
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have..."
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Benjamin Disraeli
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. Cornel West
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. William James
Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we’re not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule?" - Kinsey Millhone Sue Grafton
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing. Ursula K. Le Guin
They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. Harper Lee
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules Albert Camus

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