{"quotes":[{"text":"If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["advice","decisions","doubt","future","inspirational","planning","rule","science","tomorrow"],"id":159,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"Look, people, I’m announcing a new rule. It’s going to seem harsh. But it’s necessary.”The word “harsh” got almost everyone’s attention.“We can’t have people sitting around all day playing Wii and watching DVDs. We need people to start working in the fields. So, here’s the thing: everyone age seven or older has to put in three days per week picking fruit or veggies. Then Albert’s going to work with the whole question of freezing stuff that can be frozen, or otherwise preserving stuff.”There was dead silence. And blank stares.“What I’m saying is, tomorrow we’ll have two school buses ready to go. They hold about fifty kids each and we need to have them mostly full because we’re going to pick some melons and it’s a lot of work.”More blank stares.“Okay, let me make this simple: get your brothers and sisters and friends and anyone over age seven and be in the square tomorrow morning at eight o’clock.”“But how about—?”“Just be there,” Sam said with less firmness than he’d intended. His frustration was draining away now, replaced by weariness and depression.“Just be there,” someone mimicked in a singsong voice.Sam closed his eyes, and for a moment he almost seemed to be asleep. Then he opened them again and managed a bleak smile. “Please. Be there,” he said quietly.He walked down the three steps and out of the church, knowing in his heart that few would answer his call.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["announcement","joke","meeting","rule","sam-temple","speech","unserious","work"],"id":3899,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better. ","author":"Tryon Edwards","tags":["better","rule","well "],"id":8882,"author_id":"Tryon+Edwards"},{"text":"In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conversion","convert","gift","great","greatness","humanity","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","rule","time","time-triviality","triviality","understanding","value","value-of-time","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":13332,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.","author":"Charles Peguy","tags":["government","rule"],"id":16632,"author_id":"Charles+Peguy"},{"text":"Republics are brought to their ends by luxury  monarchies by poverty.","author":"Baron de Montesquieu","tags":["government","rule"],"id":18196,"author_id":"Baron+de+Montesquieu"},{"text":"Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.","author":"Hugh Sidey","tags":["government","rule"],"id":21246,"author_id":"Hugh+Sidey"},{"text":"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.","author":"Honore de Balzac","tags":["government","rule"],"id":22345,"author_id":"Honore+de+Balzac"},{"text":"To make certain that crime does not pay  the government should take it over and try to run it.","author":"G. Norman Collie","tags":["government","rule"],"id":28351,"author_id":"G.+Norman+Collie"},{"text":"Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","creative","creativity","follow","following","gut-feeling","gut-feelings","human","humans","innovative","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","instinct","inventive","mind","minds","motivation","motivational","motivational","original","originality","pattern","philosophy","rule","rules","will","willpower","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":28429,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":248,"pages":25,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}