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Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

 - Marvin Bell

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

 - Edward Abbey

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

 - Robert A. Heinlein

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

 - Michel de Montaigne

The first thing obvious to children is what is sensible; and that we make no part of their rudiments. We press their memory too soon, and puzzle, strain, and load them with words and rules; to know grammar and rhetoric, and a strange tongue or two, that it is ten to one may never be useful to them; leaving their natural genius to mechanical and physical, or natural knowledge uncultivated and neglected; which would be of exceeding use and pleasure to them through the whole course of their Life.

 - William Penn

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

 - Richard Branson

Here I may perhaps mention that only because men are in fact unequal can we treat them equally. If all men were completely equal in their gifts and inclinations, we should have to treat them differently in order to achieve any sort of social organization. Fortunately, they are not equal; and it is only owing to this that the differentiation of functions need not be determined by the arbitrary decision of some organizing will but that, after creating formal equality of the rules applying in the same manner to all, we can leave each individual to find his own level.

 - Friedrich Hayek

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

 - Dale Carnegie