Quotes with general

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  • Benjamin Franklin In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Ruskin In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carol Loomis In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Bell Hooks In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barry Marshall In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Ben Bernanke Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Carl D. Anderson Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
    Carl D. Anderson
    American physicist
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  • A. N. Wilson IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Jane Austen Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
    Pride & Prejudice Vol 2, ch. 2
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Caleb Cushing It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bill Dedman It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Moynihan It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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