Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.
Rules are for people with the luxury of time.
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Renee Carlino
This was about more than semantics; it represented a dangerous shift in perspective. Rio was not at war, I pointed out; and even if it were, wars have rules.
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Juliana Barbassa
Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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Catherynne M. Valente
If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.
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Abhijit V. Banerjee
You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.
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Anonymous
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
