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But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
Hugh Mackay

Decision, Less, Seems

Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.
Simon Mainwaring

Government, After, Often

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
John Calvin

Women, Men, Past

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee

Person, Conscience, Majority

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Jonathan Sacks

Freedom, True, Justice

Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
Ron Fournier

Good, Health, Care

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad

Great, Blessed, Warm

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.
Lawrence Kutner

Job, Universe, Toddler

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
Julie Andrews

Love, Music, Focus

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
Kevyn Aucoin

Respect, Amazing, Bad

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.
Heath Ledger

Find, Try, Fail

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
Ang Lee

Good, Fight, Show

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield

Life, Good, Regret

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.
Mario Batali

Different, Sometimes, Sense

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
Gabriel Byrne

Good, Character, Bad

Where no gods are, spectres rule.
Novalis

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
Sonia Sotomayor

Law, Rights, Foundation

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
Ellen G. White

Faith, Bible, Doctrine

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.
Kristen Stewart

School, Care, Whole

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
John Podhoretz

Politics, Good, Here

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
John Podhoretz

Power, Opposition, Views

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.
John O. Brennan

Law, American, Likely

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.
Herman Cain

Wrong, Gone, Wild

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Pierre Corneille

True, Feelings, Reason

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.
Pierre Corneille

Fact, Master, Allows

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
Francois Rabelais

Power, Others, Able

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adler

Men, Freedom, Arbitrary

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse

Life, Good, Mean

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
Valerie Jarrett

Power, Important, Face

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