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Napoleon: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. Giuseppe: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
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Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
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