Quotes About Rule

The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.

democracy should be understood not as the answer to the question "Who should rule?" (namely, "The People"), but as a solution to the problem of how to dismiss bad leadership without bloodshed.

The first is that we (and the hypothetical child we have been imagining) have framed the rule too broadly.

For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.

No learning rule can be entirely devoid of theoretical content nor can the tabula ever be completely rasa." 13

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.

So, if you are respectful of the rule, and conscious of its importance, and realize that it serves as a bulwark against the chaos of the unknown, and you still decide to break it, carefully, because the particularities of the circumstances demand it – well, then, more power to you. If you are just a careless, ignorant, antisocial narcissist instead, however, then look out. You break a rule at your peril, whether you know it or not.

That is a very difficult question. It is, on the one hand, the question of value: What is of the highest importance? It is, on the other hand, the question of sovereignty: What principle should rule?

Have some humility. If you cannot bring peace to your household, how dare you try to rule a city?

Know what you write about, write about what you know; this is a golden rule to which you must adhere. To know you must study. The world is an open book in which all who run may read. Nature is one great volume the pages of which are open to the peasant as well as to the peer.

We are taking over this territory now," he went on. "I shall rule the forest as well as the town. But I understand that you may need some time to reflect on this. You have three days to leave—or meet my Clan in battle. I shall wait for your decision at dawn on the fourth day.

This is what power feels like.

Drains A drain is a mechanic that determines the consumption of resources—that is, a rule specifying how resources permanently drop out of the game (not to be confused with a converter, which we'll look at next). In a shooter game, the player firing his weapon drains ammunition—that's what makes ammunition, a resource, disappear. Being

Primero una fundación de la orden trapense tradicional. Después una reforma de la orden trapense. Después una fundación fuera de esa orden. Por último, una pequeña comunidad llevando una vida sencilla sin regla y sin hábito.

The anarch's study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him - it offers a sampling of how far rulers can go. In practice, self-discipline is the only kind of rule that suits the anarch. He, too, can kill anyone (this is deeply immured in the crypt of his consciousness) and, above all, extinguish himself if he finds himself inadequate.

The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.

The Court held that the exclusionary rule may be applied only if police intentionally or recklessly violate the Fourth Amendment or only if police department violations with regard to searches and seizures are systemic.

Instead, the Court's conservative majority that already wanted to limit the exclusionary rule issued a sweeping decision that evidence never has to be excluded if the police violate the Fourth Amendment in good faith or through negligence.

The first rule of science, Captain, is to doubt appearances and to seek substances in their stead.

We don't have to privilege accumulation over distribution. But that is the rule that governs our everyday lives—our work and our play.

Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.