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I'm kind of like both of them: My mother grew up wanting to save the world, and my father grew up wanting to rule the world.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.
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.
A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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.
Another good rule for social media, I find, is to never type and post. Instead, be sure to type, pause, think, and then post.
If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.
Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust bowl.
As a general rule, I wouldn't put anything in a text or e-mail or on social media that I wouldn't want the whole world to see.
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.
Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
The only rule I have is to be as authentic and spontaneous as possible. I would never wear something I don't feel comfortable in.
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.
Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.
The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
Not every chef is a yeller, but I have to say that even a chef who is not a yeller might have a time when that rule might get broken.
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.
The rule is you don't play very long in this league. So you make the most out of it and you have to look at yourself in that fashion.
The memories I can gather now of my parents are quite contradicting. My mother was the disciplinarian and my dad was the rule breaker.
We all want a non-fragmented solution, but the utopian version of a single blockchain to rule them all is undesirable and impractical.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
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.
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.