Quotes with major-general

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  • Billy West It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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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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  • Douglas Adams It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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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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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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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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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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  • Bille August It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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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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  • Kurt Cobain It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
    Sounds 10-1990
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Benazir Bhutto It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Januszkiewicz Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
    Barbara Januszkiewicz
    American painter (1955 - )
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  • Anne Grant Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • John Adams Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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