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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And rules the shadows of the wood,
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