In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules
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For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness
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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
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The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written
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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
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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.
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[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
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The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered
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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
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Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
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My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
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One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid
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Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury poisoning arent real. No, lobbyists for the big industries just say they cant afford to make changes.
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No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
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