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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Gustave Flaubert

Facts, Disbelieve, Theories

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
Thomas Szasz

Human, Eat, Animal

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.
Suze Orman

Respect, Here, Situation

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Paracelsus

Life, Music, Feeling

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Julian Assange

Good, Law, Keep

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin

Nothing, Small, Number

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
William Wilberforce

Him, Before, Path

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
R. D. Laing

Rules, Existence, Exist

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Emile M. Cioran

Leave, Image, Oneself

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott

Person, Student, Useful

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
Marco Rubio

Today, Simple, Someone

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
Louise Hart

Parenting, Children, Parents

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Pietro Aretino

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
Carter G. Woodson

Business, Cannot, Taught

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Carl Hiaasen

Wind, Begin, Trees

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Arrogance, King, Sign

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
Ulysses S. Grant

Life, Trust, Long

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
George Ade

Bad, Become, Anyone

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco

Truth, Fear, Die

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Women, Men, Strange

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?
Tori Amos

Read, Reading, Somebody

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
Art Linkletter

Religion, Best, Yourself

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Emile M. Cioran

Cannot, Crime, Limit

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown

Women, Men, America

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney

Time, Remember, Motto

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.
Glenn Beck

Alone, Made, America

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
Camille Paglia

Art, Creativity, Cant

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith

Greatest, Through, After

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