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  • How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the rules of the game and on the assetts of the players: it is a very important and widely neglected truth that it does not depend on the rules of the game alone.

    Player   Games   Numbers  
    Gerald Allan Cohen (1995). “Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality”, p.54, Cambridge University Press
  • I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.

  • The more you become a part of society, the less and less you are an individual, the less and less you are spontaneous - because the very membership in the society will not allow you to be spontaneous. You will have to follow the rules of the game. If you enter a society, you accept to follow those rules that the society is playing, or has decided to play.

    Games   Play   Society  
  • The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.

  • The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

    Source: presbyterianrecord.ca
  • In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.

    Hard Times   Games   Evil  
    Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press
  • American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.

  • You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

    Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin
  • We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

    Source: www.cbc.ca
  • Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

    Women   Games   Firsts  
    Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.113, Indiana University Press
  • 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.

    Moving   Games   Would Be  
    "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
  • The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

    Life   Player   Games  
    'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'
  • This is not only a matter of relations between Russia and the United States. In my view, any restrictions in the economic sphere that are dictated by considerations of political expediency are extremely harmful for the world economy as a whole. This destroys unity and the rules of the game.

    Russia   Views   Games  
    Source: www.rt.com
  • The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

    Creativity   Men   Games  
  • So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

    Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press
  • You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  • The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

    "Russia Is Not a Democracy". Interview with Uwe Klussmann and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. March 15, 2007.
  • In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

    Sports   Football   Games  
  • You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations - the rules of the game, so to speak - and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.

    Gdp   Rights   Government  
    Source: www.aims.ca
  • But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's important, but I can't get excited about that myself.

    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.

    FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 09, 2017
  • To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

  • The rules of the game of life are quite simple. Always tell the truth. Never live in fear of anything or anyone. Be conscious of what you are thinking so you can always think positively. Do everything that you do for the love of doing it. If you devote yourself, your time and your energy to following these rules, have no doubt - you cannot lose!

    Thinking   Simple   Games  
    FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 03, 2015
  • I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

    Strength   Mother   Art  
  • I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.

    Stars   War   Talking  
    Source: collider.com
  • Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.

    Men   Numbers   Games  
    Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”
  • The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

    Loneliness   Games   Soul  
    Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin
  • There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

    Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press
  • I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

    Sports   Strong   Games  
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