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• I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

  Linus Pauling

  Errors, Golden, Twenties

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• All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, People, Evil

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.

  Robert Breault

  Funny, Children, Humorous

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• I remember when Ronald Reagan was president he said 'if the American people obeyed the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule we wouldn't have any problems.' The first time I heard him say it I thought, 'That's too simplistic.' There are complicated problems back there. But you analyze it, he's right.

  Bill Bright

  People, President, Golden

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

  Anne Frank

  Laughing, Golden, Bother

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Simple, Environmental, Golden

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• The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.

  David W Augsburger

  Friendship, Real, Golden

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• The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The audience can feel whether or not the artist is being genuine in their music. It's up to the artist to have the courage to reveal their truth through their songs.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Home, Writing

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

  Ron Paul

  Country, Upset, Want

  "How Big Money Super PACs are Reshaping the GOP Race". "News Hour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 17, 2012.

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• Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts - this is the golden rule of excellence.

  Gary Ryan

  Excellence, Lines, Golden

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• The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

  John James Ingalls

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

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• Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

  Mark Buchanan

  Giving, Golden, Embrace

  Mark Buchanan (2007). “The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.

  Frank Muir

  Reading, Golden, Menus

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• I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.

  Karen Armstrong

  Writing, World, Safe

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

  Jennifer Beals

  Compassion, Sake, Golden

  WCIU Interview, May 04, 2011.

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• Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  "Maxims for Revolutionists (#1)". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1903.

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• The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, Understanding

  Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”

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• I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Trying, Want, Golden

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• In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.

  James Cash Penney

  Real, Names, Ideas

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• Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

  Mark Twain

  Answers, Golden, Made

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took . . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.

  Ralph Nader

  Sports, Fun, Athlete

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• It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.

  Richard Branson

  Fire, Important, Dresses

  "Richard Branson: My golden rule of business" by Jack Preston, www.virgin.com. August 26, 2014.

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• The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Stress, Integrity, Divorce

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.155, Harmony

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• My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

  Tony Oller

  Golden, Influential, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

  Sam Harris

  Father, Teaching, Night

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