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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken

Humanity, Almost, False

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford

Best, Possible, Quality

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway

Successful, Father, Two

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl Jung

Beautiful, Woman, Terrible

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren Buffett

Forget, Lose, Second

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

Life, Work, Happiness

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Far, Kinds

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, Sympathy, Friendly

By ancestry, I was born to rule.
Nelson Mandela

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus

Children, Social, Needs

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest Hemingway

Rock, Sometimes, Write

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant

Time, Fool, True

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II

Women, Men, Freedom

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard

Begins, Martyr, Tyrant

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficult, Easy, Govern

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?
Ron Paul

Why, Wonder, Maybe

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Marcus Aurelius

Good, Future, Remember

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power, Majority, Republic

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney

Wrong, Chance, Getting

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
Dwight L. Moody

Friend, Jesus, Treat

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

Trying, Try, Become

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton

Life, Boring, Short

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
Alfred Adler

Simple, Hard, Person

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Law, Show

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes

Problem, Problems, Solve

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Hostility, Dreads, Unfit

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
Hillary Clinton

Religion, Principles, Golden

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
Princess Diana

Heart, Book, Head

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