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The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. -- Tom Allen
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations. -- George Ade
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. -- Elizabeth Blackwell
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. -- Michelangelo Antonioni
I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life. -- Lawrence Taylor
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it. -- Adam Davidson
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. -- Helen Frankenthaler
What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule. -- Elinor Ostrom
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What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule. -- Elinor Ostrom
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution. -- Lawrence Lessig
On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector. -- Ronald Kessler
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. -- Tom Peters
It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs. -- Rob Sheffield
To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first. -- Lydia Lunch
Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law. -- Ban Ki-moon
There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent. -- Robert Powell
I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me. -- Jonathan Maberry
Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky

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