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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
In business, politics and in life in general competition means the survival of the fittest
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
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 cost of leadership," explains Lieutenant General George Flynn of the United States Marine Corps, "is self-interest.
— Simon Sinek
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
The theory of government changes with general progress.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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
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
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
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 role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.
— Norman Podhoretz
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
I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
— Brian May
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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
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
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
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
