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• Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Golden, Should

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• You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Wall, Believe

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.

  Paul Hawken

  Simple, People, Trying

  "The Ecology of Commerce". Book by Paul Hawken, 1993.

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• But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?

  Ken Mehlman

  Love, Differences, Adults

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• As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Gold, Golden

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.249, BenBella Books

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• Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Golden, Moderation, Enjoyment

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.231

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• Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Oxygen, People, Hatred

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Murphy's golden rule: Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.

  Dave Barry

  God, Stupidity, Gold

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• Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Race, Average

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• Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.

  Bob Burg

  People, Motivational Sales, Golden

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• I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.

  Lily Allen

  Ibiza, Drug, Golden

  "Send us your questions for Lily Allen". www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2018.

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• Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Attitude, Heart

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• The Golden Rule will always be good advice!

  Jay Asher

  Advice, Golden, Be Good

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• The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.

  Amit Ray

  Prayer, Heart, Eye

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• Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you. Regardless of who you are or what you do, if you are looking for the best way to reap the most reward in all areas of life, you should look for the good in every person and in every situation and adopt the golden rule as a way of life.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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• Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of 'Do what you like so long as you don't impose it on others'. Authority's role should be in protecting the unwilling from the will of another. After that, they should push off and leave us alone.

  David Icke

  Expression, Long, Community

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• Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of man's moral constitution - with the aid of active intellectual powers and the effects of habit, naturally lead to the golden rule, "As ye would that men should do to you; do ye to them likewise"; and this lies at the foundation of morality.

  Charles Darwin

  Lying, Men, Intellectual

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, part I, chap. IV, 1871.

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• The reason for our success is no secret. It comes down to one single principle that transcends time and geography, religion and culture. It’s the Golden Rule – the simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same.

  Isadore Sharp

  Success, Time, Attitude

  "CEOs onPeople - In Conversation With Isadore Sharp, Founder and Chairman, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts". Lee Hecht Harrison Interview, onpeople.lhh.com.

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• The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state.

  James B. Weaver

  Struggle, Taken, Law

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• I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Golden, Reason, Request

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Brotherhood, Eras, Matter

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• If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Women, Thinking, Priorities

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to try and deserve what you want.
  It’s such a simple idea, it’s the golden rule so to speak. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

  Charlie Munger

  Simple, Ideas, Trying

  Commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the USC Gould School of Law, genius.com. 2007.

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• And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront.

  Karen Armstrong

  Compassion, Goal, Reason Why

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Two

  In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 27

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