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“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”
Joseph Brodsky
“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.”
David Ogilvy
“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”
Hannah Arendt
“The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.”
Bill Shankly
“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”
Sir Walter Scott
“If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.”
Cato The Elder
“If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris
“Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,And a king ain’t satisfied till he rules everything.”
Bruce Springsteen
“It is not good to have a rule of many.”
Homer
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants”
William Penn
