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As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
Svetlana Alliluyeva

Kindness, Human, Result

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
Paul Haggis

Travel, May, Plan

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
Sean O'Casey

Keep, Lose, Temper

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
Maurice Wilkins

Mean, Progress, Mistake

I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.
Tim Hardaway

Family, Why, Put

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.
Anne Hutchinson

Shall, Convince, Yield

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
Anne Hutchinson

Truth, Give, Answer

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
Anne Hutchinson

Women, God, Why

Every rule should be broken at least one time.
Poppy Montgomery

The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.
John Slattery

Tell, Anyone, Surfing

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.
Dean Cain

Life, Live, Pretty

If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
Donald Tusk

End, Against, Situation

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.
Miranda Kerr

Live, Healthy, Percent

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.
Juan Cole

War, Thought, Before

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
George H. Mead

Experience, Social, Individual

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.
Peer Steinbruck

Crisis, Enough, Problems

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.
Bill Dixon

Nothing, Playing, Left

We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.
Mohammed Morsi

Freedom, Sympathy, Struggle

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.
Ruth First

Work, Poverty, Again

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.
George Brett

Change, Bring, National

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
Warren E. Burger

Law, Opinion, Times

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
Frederick Pollock

Pretty, Far, Public

The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.
Bulent Ecevit

Country, Fighting, Whole

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.
Rhys Ifans

Work, Best, Book

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
William Goldman

Job, Creative, Start

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.
Richard D. Zanuck

Good, Technology, Movies

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
John Galsworthy

Power, Impossible, Found

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Leigh Hunt

Two, Line, Hearts

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
Andrew Vachss

Hero, Why, Between

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.
Chad Kroeger

End, Long, Done

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