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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams

Everyone, Himself, Taste

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.
Denzel Washington

Unemployed, Exception

We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'
Elizabeth Gilbert

Cannot, Said, Weekend

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
Franz Grillparzer

Person, Individual, Educated

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
Anthony Trollope

Love, Woman, Two

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.
Ashley Tisdale

Dating, Until, Guy

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
Stevie Wonder

Mother, Find, Street

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman

Life, Father, Real

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen

Live, Past, Away

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.
James Cash Penney

Business, Golden, Limit

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Question, Hand, Heavy

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
will.i.am

Politics, Business, Ignorance

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.
Harvey Weinstein

America, United, Pathetic

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Gerald R. Ford

Great, Men, Government

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.
Arne Duncan

College, Used, Pay

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
Haruki Murakami

Fun, Writing, After

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
Nick Johnson

Technology, General, Gaming

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Put, Keep, Ourselves

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
Nelson Boswell

Powerful, Simple, Give

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.
Julie Burchill

Husband, Parents, Someone

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Law, Progress, Starting

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Douglas Horton

Time, Big, Three

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

Live, Person, Before

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan

Game, Play, Properly

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
Gerry Adams

Government, British, Ireland

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
Anthony Trollope

Angry, Through, Since

Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. Henry

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
Terence

Life, Principle, Addicted

I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.
Jim DeMint

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