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The main problem was I don't like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college. — Peter Cameron

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. — Donald Judd

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. — Sun Tzu

In business, politics and in life in general competition means the survival of the fittest — Bangambiki Habyarimana

How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms — Joe Carter

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville

The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him. — Robert Jordan

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life. — George Jean Nathan

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy

It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest. — Heather Brooke

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses. — Karl Radek

That's the thing- with that summer and hard times in general, you've gotta take the salty with the sweet. It's always a balance. — Mamrie Hart

A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is - as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility - dukes and such. — Mark Twain

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations. — Percy Williams Bridgman

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. — Joseph Campbell

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me. — Gaspar Noe

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. — Paul Harris

The cost of leadership," explains Lieutenant General George Flynn of the United States Marine Corps, "is self-interest. — Simon Sinek

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery. — P.N. Elrod

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese! — Duke Of Wellington

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law." "And is — Xenophon

The theory of government changes with general progress. — Ulysses S. Grant

Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver. — Jarrett McCall

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. — Andre Malraux

The promotion of 'average' individual causes a general levelling down. — Alain De Benoist

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. — George Eliot

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults. — Adam Weishaupt

The practice of "reviewing" ... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism. — Henry James

we confused the manager's general competence and maturity with his task-relevant maturity. — Andrew S. Grove

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed. — Ken Starr

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. — Anthony Fauci

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society. — Sonny Rollins

The general will is always right. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. — Victor Hugo

We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him? — Mahatma Gandhi

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A tax on capital would promote the general interest over private interests while preserving economic openness and the forces of competition. — Thomas Piketty

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can. — Avicii

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. — Edward Hopper

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic. — Thomas Jefferson

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. — Josh Billings

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write. — Aldous Huxley

Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end. — Edward Young

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. — John Lydon

THE LITTLE MAN HURRIED into the Fountain and ordered a very large whisky. "Because," he announced to the pub in general, "I deserve it. — Neil Gaiman

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel. — Norman Podhoretz

The atoms all seem to be made from the same general constitution. They have a nucleus, and around the nucleus there are electrons. — Anonymous

I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man. — Eric Holder

It's like squeezing tripe: nothing comes out,' he said, meaning the Colasberna brothers, their partners, the town in general and Sicily as a whole. — Leonardo Sciascia

Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band. — Justin Vernon

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision. — Noam Chomsky

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish. — Brian May

I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet. — Mike Leigh

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. — Carl Jung

In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds. — John Lawler

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. — Errol Morris

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. — Fran Lebowitz

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. — Jill Soloway

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. — Alexander Herzen

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. — Lord Chesterfield

We have got to lose the primary in order to win the general. — Sean Hannity

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us ... — Murasaki Shikibu

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb. — Charles M. Schwab

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all. — Gary Cooper

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. — Joan Chen

General uncivility is the very essence of love. — Jane Austen

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? — Napoleon Bonaparte

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits. — H. G. Bissinger

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. — Bernard Law Montgomery

Freedom is the breath of the soul — Dr. Dr. Mohammed Abad Al Razak

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107) — Irvin D. Yalom

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. — Theodore Roosevelt

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. — Samuel Johnson

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work. — Clark Duke

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World. — Paul Krugman

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question. — Marion Nestle

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. — Rene Descartes

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before. — Ban Ki-moon

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. — Maximilien De Robespierre

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. — Francis Bacon

I'm tempted to kill the general first, then his staff officers. Sometimes you just want to eat pudding early. All the same, I make myself wait. — David Gunn

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. — Giacomo Casanova

Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general. — Victor Robert Lee

The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me. — P.G. Wodehouse

(...) there's a rule that no question affecting the general public may be finally decided until it has been debated for three days. — Thomas More

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged. — Thomas Hobbes

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy. — Miles Teller

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees. — James Lind

Sometimes," said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, "dreams are all that separate us from the machines. — Dan Simmons