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Thread: If you could live by one rule, what would it be?

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    What it WOULD be: To thine own self be true.

    What it is: Failure is not an option.
    I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
    Waiting for a winter to be done.
    Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
    In all that I could never overcome?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf View Post
    Know Thyself.
    Actually, not much effort is required for that. The big effort is required not to know oneself. But that's just one rule, not THE RULE.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cafolini View Post
    Actually, not much effort is required for that. The big effort is required not to know oneself. But that's just one rule, not THE RULE.
    are you referring to the whole "if you're trying at it, you're already doing it wrong"
    “the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought....

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    http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...dments/n10508/

    MY favorite rule... from the above "translation" of the Ten Commandments:

    "All the young girls should come to my tent..."
    Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
    The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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    Practice patience, give cooler heads a chance to prevail.
    "Mongo only pawn in game of life" - Mongo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRma7PDW10

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle View Post
    Practice patience, give cooler heads a chance to prevail.
    I may adopt this one. Patience is not my friend.
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    Don't get caught!

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    Golden rule or more realistically- Keep my mouth and maintain composure!

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    Our English teacher told us in our final lesson with him, as his parting words of wisdom - 'Don't be a b*****d'. Seems like a pretty good rule to live your life by in my opinion.

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    don't be true be you! I think that sums life up.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Neither incite fear in others nor fear anyone yourself.
    "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
    "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai
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    One rule?

    The metre.

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    lol. Or can it be a ring, as in one ring to rule them all?
    "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
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    Quote Originally Posted by qimissung View Post
    lol. Or can it be a ring, as in one ring to rule them all?
    That's a better one.

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