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Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
I like things to have rules, I like order and I like schedules. -- Mark Consuelos
Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order. -- Cesar Millan
My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. -- Jane Rule
It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks. -- Thomas Pogge
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. -- John Milton
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order. -- Steven Van Zandt
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle. -- Chris Matthews
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide? -- Adrienne Rich
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
Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules. -- Al Sharpton
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. -- Xun Zi
I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order. -- Madonna Ciccone
I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm. -- Francois Hollande
Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption. -- Thomas E. Mann
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe. -- Annie Besant
Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain. -- Philip Hammond
Eventually the dollar won't always rule. Eventually there will be a challenge to the United States and it will have to be like other countries that are a bit concerned about their currency, and then have to ratchet back in order to - right, in order to sustain. We just haven't reached that point yet. -- Amity Shlaes
At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission. -- Matisyahu
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order. -- Seneca the Younger
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order. -- Taisen Deshimaru
All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing. -- Nicolas Roeg
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey. -- Albert Camus
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? -- Robert J. Sawyer
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed. -- Robert Silverberg
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. -- Paulo Coelho
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty. -- Kenneth Clark
I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order. -- Charles Spurgeon
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion. -- Daniel Quinn
Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love. -- Paulo Coelho
When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it. -- Aphex Twin
You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important. -- Vladimir Putin
The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." Inaugural address 1789 -- George Washington
There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order. -- Samantha Power
Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes. -- Judith M Bardwick

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