So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

Whoever uses age, grammar, weaknesses, and anything else unrelated to the topic of any arguement that is debated at hand, is a sign that this person who uses it, is desperate to even have a point comparable to a pencil. A rule that you can remember everytime you debate against a person.

I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.