Quotes with major-general

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  • Bruce Schneier There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
    Bruce Schneier (1996)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Arthur Middleton There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Joan Didion There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bob Dylan There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
    Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • John Morley They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Orson Welles They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Bobby Jindal This is a serious storm that has caused serious damage in our state... We're pleased we haven't seen breaches in the levees. We're pleased we haven't seen major flooding in New Orleans or the places that flooded before. But there are serious challenges.
    The Washington Post, published September 2, 2008
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Cat Stevens This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • William Hazlitt Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Benito Mussolini Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
    Popolo dItalia (1 February 1921), quoted in The Menace of Fascism (1933) by John Strachey, p. 65
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Anne Tyler Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • William Blake To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • George Eliot To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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