Suspend The Rules
In parliamentary procedure, suspension of the rules is a procedure in which a deliberative assembly sets aside its normal rules of order in order to do something that it could not do otherwise.
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“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”
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“Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.”
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To copy Nature is to copy them.”
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