T Quotes
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“The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.”
“The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.”
“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”
“The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.”
Source: Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography
“The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.”
“The rule of law can be a powerful force in human affairs.”
Source: Aurora
“The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.”
“The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master”
Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch
“The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.”
“The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.”
“The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.”
“The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.”
“The rule of law still governs, Spence. Without rules, there’s only chaos.”
Source: Mob Justice: A Scavenger Hunt Thriller
“The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.”
“The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about”
“The rule of mirrors. So many possibilities. We seek until we find a true reflection of ourselves,”
Source: The Rule of Mirrors
“The rule of money is it must be earned.”
Source: Rule of Money: An Introduction to Market Economics
“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.”
“The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?”
Source: The Return of the King
“The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?”
“The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.”
Source: The Assault on Reason
“The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.”
“The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.”
“The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction”
“The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.”
“The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.”
Source: Black Dawn
“The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.”
“The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be nice to potential reciprocators. It would have been, Be nice to everybody, because everybody would have been included.”
“The rule of thumb for all news operations is that stories are assigned their importance on the basis of what affects or interests the greatest number of one's readers or viewers. Depending on the nature of the newspaper or broadcast, the balance between what "affects" and what "interests" is quite different. The first criteria of a responsible newspaper such as The New York Times is going to be that which their readers need to know about their world that day — those developments that in one way or another might affect their health, their pocketbooks, the future of themselves and their children. The first criterion of the tabloid is that which "interests" its readers — gossip, sex, scandal.”
Source: A Reporter's Life
“The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.”
“The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.”
Source: Blame It on the Brain?: Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain Disorders, and Disobedience
“The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.”
“The Rule really is: be kind to yourself when you do muck things up. Be forgiving and accept that it's all part of that growing older but no wiser routine.
Looking back, we can always see the mistakes we made, but we fail to see the ones looming up.
The older you get, the more areas you've covered to make mistakes in.
As long as we look back and see where we went wrong and resolve not to repeat such mistakes, there is little else we need to do.
Remember that any Rules that apply to you also apply to everyone around you. Once you accept this, you'll be more forgiving and kinder towards yourself and others.
Time does heal and things do get better as you get older. After all, the more mistakes you've made, the less likely that you'll come up with new ones. The best thing is that if you get a lot of your mistakes over and done with early on in life, there will be less to learn the hard way later on. And that's what youth is all about, a chance to make all the mistakes you can and get them out of the way.”
Source: The Rules of Life: A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life
“The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.”
“The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.”
“The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career”
“The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.”
Source: People and Performance
“The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back.”
“The rule through pandemic medical and emergency decrees is nothing more than a coup d’état on a worldwide scale and it therefore follows the same patterns, not necessarily in the same order, observed in banana republics:
First, pointing to a threat, lockdown of the borders, and restrictions of the means of transportation; checked.
Second, full control of the media; checked.
Third, declaration of a state of emergency and deployment of forces on the ground; checked.
Fourth, restrictions of assembly and civil rights; checked.
Fifth, repressive measure for those not cooperating; checked.
Sixth, changes to the figures and political scene as some go away and old ones come back; checked.
Seventh, attempt to return to normalcy; checked. - On Tyranny Through Emergency Decrees”
Source: Awakening
“The rule through pandemic medical and emergency decrees is nothing more than a coup d’état on a worldwide scale and it therefore follows the same patterns, not necessarily in the same order, observed in banana republics:
First, pointing to a threat, lockdown of the borders, and restrictions of the means of transportation; checked.
Second, full control of the media; checked.
Third, declaration of a state of emergency and deployment of forces on the ground; checked.
Fourth, restrictions of assembly and civil rights; checked.
Fifth, repressive measure for those not cooperating; checked.
Sixth, changes to the figures and political scene as some go away and old ones come back; checked.
Seventh, attempt to return to normalcy; checked. - Tyranny Through Emergency Decrees”
“The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".”
“The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.”
“The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.”
Source: The Long-Legged House
“The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.”
“The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.”
“The ruler of darkness and the ruler of the wild, both breathing a little too
quickly”
Source: Lightlark
“The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.”
“The rulers of ill-governed countries have hands, mouths, feet, stomachs, ears, livers, kidneys! But there is something very vital that they do not have: The brain! If they had that, they could run their country well!”