Quotes with major-general

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  • Charles Horton Cooley The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Billy Barty The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
    Billy Barty
    American actor and activist (1924 - 2000)
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  • Bernard Tschumi The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Boris Sidis The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
    Multiple Personality: an Experimental Investigation into Human Individuality (1904)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • John Stuart Mill The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Napoleon The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Samuel Johnson The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Santayana The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Virginia Woolf The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Edward Gibbon The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Arthur Herzog The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Bob Rae The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Arleigh Burke The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
    Arleigh Burke
    American admiral of the US Navy (1901 - 1996)
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  • Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Jim Rohn The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Jim Rohn The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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