Quotes 21 till 40 of 271.
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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
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A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
On War (1832) -
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln -
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
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All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13 -
Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
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As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.
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As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
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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.
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
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