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The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
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The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
Multiple Personality: an Experimental Investigation into Human Individuality (1904) -
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
On War (1832) -
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.
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The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.
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The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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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.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
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