Quotes 161 till 180 of 406.
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
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If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
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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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In the emerging era, clashes of civilization are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p.321 -
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
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In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
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It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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It is good rule in life to 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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