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“- The first rule of Fight Club is: you don't talk about Fight Club. - The second rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club- Third rule of Fight Club, if someone yells stop!, goes limp, ...”
“Rules will break you as often as you break them. But I guess thats okay.Maybe Im done with rules.For now, anyway.I think I will just be. I will exist. And see what happens.”
“Thats the problem with following all the rulessomebody else is eventually going to get ahead by breaking them, and then where will you be?”
“Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.”
“Your way, your rules. Their way - their rules.”
“nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.”
“Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.”
“In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.”
“The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing: Before they do anything else, they first break all the rules o...”
“Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.”
“Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules”
“There was five golden rules. My dad made me write them over and over until I knew them like I knew my own name...Number five: never have a fire in the daytime, 'cause people could see the smoke and...”
“Rules do not determine outcomes - the players still have to make choices - but they make some outcomes more likely than others, by defining what it means to "win", and by creating incentives for an...”
“Theres no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.”
“Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.”
“Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.”
“Who says I have rules?" She waves off my question. "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules.”
“For those of us who can, there are certain precautions we must take in order to protect ourselves and those around us. The first and most important is this-never acknowledge the dead. Don't look at...”
“Sebastian grinned into his drink. Rules. He loved rules. They were so much fun to break.”
“Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.”
