Quotes with general

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  • Napoleon I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Alanis Morissette I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Samuel Pepys I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Angela Davis I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Alan Greenspan I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Joe E. Lewis I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Ben Bernanke If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Benjamin Booker In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bill Kristol In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Edmund Burke In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Lord George Byron In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Carson In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
    Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, IV
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Alan Greenspan In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
    The Age of Turbulence (2008) p.275
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Bill Haslam In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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